| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Alex Hunsaker <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Setting oom_adj on linux? |
| Date: | 2010-01-08 17:56:28 |
| Message-ID: | 9376.1262973388@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> There could well be moving parts if the user wants to adjust the value
> being written to oom_adj, and can't because it's compiled in. I don't
> see why we can't just add a GUC for this and be done with it.
The number of users who will want to do that might be different from
epsilon, but not by enough to justify a GUC. Furthermore, we don't have
any reasonable infrastructure for supporting platform-specific GUCs,
which means that the amount of effort you're proposing is extremely
large.
regards, tom lane
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