Re: Zen and art if WAL and dump file mainteance

We have: vm.overcommit_memory = 2

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From: pgsql-admin-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
[mailto:pgsql-admin-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Tom Lane
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 4:27 PM
To: dx k9
Cc: posgres support
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Zen and art if WAL and dump file mainteance

dx k9 <bitsandbytes88(at)hotmail(dot)com> writes:
> We are trying to figure out why maintenance on A (zipping up &
removing files) would have an affect on production processing (killed
it) on pgdata - B.

Sounds like an OOM kill problem --- do you have memory overcommit
disabled on that machine?

regards, tom lane

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