Re: Hit by the out of memory killer last night

From: Bryan Murphy <bmurphy1976(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Ben Chobot <bench(at)silentmedia(dot)com>
Cc: PGSQL Mailing List <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Hit by the out of memory killer last night
Date: 2011-01-31 16:40:33
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On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Ben Chobot <bench(at)silentmedia(dot)com> wrote:

> > Any advice? What should I be looking for?
>
> Any particular reason you are running the OOM killer on a database server?
> Why have the kernel set to overcommit memory in the first place?

Simply an oversight. That being said, it does not explain WHY we are seeing
such a memory usage pattern.

Thanks,
Bryan

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