| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Alex Hunsaker <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Setting oom_adj on linux? |
| Date: | 2010-01-09 22:07:29 |
| Message-ID: | 17917.1263074849@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Alex Hunsaker <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 14:06, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
>> If word of this gets out, every
>> server process on Linux will excuse itself from the OOM killer. And
>> then the kernel guys will add another setting to override the process
>> preference.
> ... maybe it will convince them its time to fix the damn thing.
> Although postgres really is kind of special in this regard.
Yeah. If they had saner handling of shared-memory accounting, maybe
there wouldn't be a need for us to kluge around the OOM logic.
regards, tom lane
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