| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Pre-allocation of shared memory ... |
| Date: | 2003-06-13 00:08:28 |
| Message-ID: | 200306130008.h5D08Sn14037@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> writes:
> > I think you'll find this overcommit issue affects many if not most Unixen.
>
> I'm unconvinced, because I've only ever heard of the problem affecting
> Postgres on Linux.
What I don't understand is why they just don't start failing on
fork/malloc rather than killing things.
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