Re: Setting oom_adj on linux?

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Setting oom_adj on linux?
Date: 2010-01-04 17:00:28
Message-ID: 20100104170028.GK3778@alvh.no-ip.org
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Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 17:55, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:

> > BTW, is it possible for pg_ctl to disable OOM-killer?  I guess not,
> > since it's not run by root ...
>
> No, it has to run as root.

We could at least make it work on Windows, since it is often run as
Administrator and drops privileges afterwards ...

... oh, wait ...

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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