Re: oom_killer

From: Claudio Freire <klaussfreire(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
Cc: Tory M Blue <tmblue(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: oom_killer
Date: 2011-04-21 13:02:44
Message-ID: BANLkTi=X-bHbhP0O=eS-Pc5N3omRHtD=Fg@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Claudio Freire <klaussfreire(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> wrote:
>>
>> There's probably something else that's trying to grab all the memory and
>> then tries to use it and PG ends up getting nailed because the kernel
>> over-attributes memory to it.  You should be looking for that other
>> process..
>
> Not only that, you probably should set up your oom killer not to kill
> postmaster. Ever.
>

Here: http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/kernel-resources.html

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