Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> writes:
> I'm not exactly keen on Debian init scripts hacking kernel settings.
> Should it hack up the shared memory numbers too? This is not what I
> would consider 'init script' material for specific applications.
What was suggested was tweaking the oom_adj setting for the postmaster
process only, not messing with any system-wide settings. Do you really
find that unreasonable? The default OOM killer behavior is just about
as unreasonable as can be :-(
regards, tom lane