Re: kill -KILL: What happens?

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 03:29:13PM -0800, Jeff Davis wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 11:14 -0800, David Fetter wrote:
> > I get that we can't prevent all pilot error, but I was hoping we
> > could bullet-proof this a little more, especially in light of a
> > certain extremely popular server OS's OOM killer's default
> > behavior.
>
> That's a good point. I'm not sure how much action can reasonably be
> taken, however.

We may find out from Florian's experiments :)

> > Yes, I get that that behavior is crazy, and stupid, and that
> > people should shut it off, but it *is* our problem if we let the
> > postmaster start (or continue) when it's set that way.
>
> As an aside, linux has actually changed the heuristic:
>
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=a63d83f427fbce97a6cea0db2e64b0eb8435cd10

Great! In a decade or so, no more servers will be running with an
earlier kernel ;)

Cheers,
David.
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