| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Denis Perchine <dyp(at)perchine(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, ncm(at)zembu(dot)com (Nathan Myers) |
| Subject: | Re: Quite strange crash |
| Date: | 2001-01-09 06:03:54 |
| Message-ID: | 29909.979020234@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Denis Perchine <dyp(at)perchine(dot)com> writes:
>> It's worth noting here that modern Unixes run around killing user-level
>> processes more or less at random when free swap space (and sometimes
>> just RAM) runs low.
> That's not the case for sure. There are 512Mb on the machine, and when I had
> this problem it was compltely unloaded (>300Mb in caches).
The fact that VACUUM processes seemed to be preferential victims
suggests a resource limit of some sort. I had suggested a CPU-time
limit, but perhaps it could also be disk-pages-written.
regards, tom lane
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