Re: Setting oom_adj on linux?

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Alex Hunsaker <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com>, 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: 2010-01-08 16:45:50
Message-ID: 201001081645.o08GjoT15764@momjian.us
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Alex Hunsaker <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 07:27, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> >> Then, somebody who wants the feature would build with, say,
> >> -DLINUX_OOM_ADJ=0
> >> or another value if they want that.
>
> > Here is a stab at that.
>
> Anybody have an objection to this basic approach? I'm in a bit of a
> hurry to get something like this into the Fedora RPMs, so barring
> objections I'm going to review this, commit it into HEAD, and then
> make a back-ported patch I can use with 8.4 in Fedora.

Go for it, but FYI, we need to udpate the our OOM documentation mention
to reflect this change.

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