Re: configurability of OOM killer

From: Florian Weimer <fweimer(at)bfk(dot)de>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: configurability of OOM killer
Date: 2008-02-02 16:21:50
Message-ID: 82k5lngwgx.fsf@mid.bfk.de
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* Alvaro Herrera:

> I am wondering if we can set the system up so that it skips postmaster,
> bgwriter etc, and feels more preference towards normal backends (but
> then, we would try to give them less points than other regular
> processes). That could make the system more robust overall, even if the
> sysadmin hasn't configured it.

How much does that help? Postmaster &c still need to be shut down
when a regular backend dies due to SIGKILL.

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