Re: Setting oom_adj on linux?

On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 10:07, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> wrote:
> * Tom Lane (tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us) wrote:
>> I don't want to go to the trouble of creating (and documenting) a
>> configure option for this.  Much less a GUC ;-)
>
> Requiring a custom build to disable it would be horrible, in my view.
> Or, at best, just means that the packagers won't enable it, which
> obviously would be less than ideal.

FWIW I agree.

> Sorry if it's a pain, but I think it needs to either be configurable or
> not done.  As I said before, it definitely needs to handle failure
> gracefully, but I worry that even that won't be sufficient in some
> cases.  Just thinking about how we run PG under VServers and Linux
> Containers and whatnot, we ran into some issues with OpenSSH trying to
> monkey with proc values and I'd really hate to run into the same issues
> with PG.

As long as the VM/container you are running under wont kill postmaster
for trying to access proc-- the patch I posted should work fine. It
just ignores any error (I assumed you might be running in a chroot
without proc or some such).