Re: Setting oom_adj on linux?

On Mon, 4 Jan 2010 16:57:28 +0100, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 16:45, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
> wrote:
>> Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>> I realize this is a very platform-specific thing, but should we
>>> consider setting the value of /proc/<pid>/oom_adj when running on
>>> linux? See:
>>
>>
http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/20080201223336.GC24780%40alvh.no-ip.org
>
> Grr. I had zero recollectoin of that :S
>
> Can't find a useful consensus though?

I don't think we should set a setting like that automatically. Perhaps a
warning on startup?

Joshua D. Drake

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