Re: [ADMIN] Dangerous hint in the PostgreSQL manual

Listaccount wrote:
> Hello
>
> I have been trapped by the advice from the manual to use "sysctl -w
> vm.overcommit_memory=2" when using Linux (see 16.4.3. Linux Memory
> Overcommit). This value should only be used when PostgreSQL is the only
> Application running on the machine in question. It should be checked
> against the values "CommitLimit" and "Committed_AS" in /proc/meminfo on
> a longer running system. If "Committed_AS" reaches or come close to
> "CommitLimit" one should not set overcommit_memory=2 (see
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-devel-list/2005-February/msg00738.html)
> I think it should be included in the manual as a warning because with
> this setting the machine in question may get trouble with "fork failed"
> even if the standard system tools report a lot of free memory causing
> confusion to the admins.

This discussion belongs on -docs... moving.

Joshua D. Drake

>
> Regards
>
> Andreas
>
>
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