PG Killed by OOM Condition

From: "John Hansen" <john(at)geeknet(dot)com(dot)au>
To: <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: PG Killed by OOM Condition
Date: 2005-10-03 13:03:06
Message-ID: 5066E5A966339E42AA04BA10BA706AE50A939C@rodrick.geeknet.com.au
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Good people,

Just had a thought!

Might it be worth while protecting the postmaster from an OOM Kill on
Linux by setting /proc/{pid}/oom_adj to -17 ?
(Described vaguely in mm/oom_kill.c)

Kind Regards,

John Hansen

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