Re: Setting oom_adj on linux?

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Alex Hunsaker <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Setting oom_adj on linux?
Date: 2010-01-08 17:34:29
Message-ID: 4B476CA5.5080007@dunslane.net
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Tom Lane wrote:
> I don't want to go to the trouble of creating (and documenting) a
> configure option for this. Much less a GUC ;-)
>
> What I suggest is that we do something like
>
> #ifdef LINUX_OOM_ADJ
> ...
> fprintf(oom, "%d\n", LINUX_OOM_ADJ);
> ...
> #endif
>
> Then, somebody who wants the feature would build with, say,
> -DLINUX_OOM_ADJ=0
> or another value if they want that.
>
>

+1 for this. Looks like a sound approach.

cheers

andrew

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