Re: Kernel kills postgres process - help need

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On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:17:14 -0800
Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com> wrote:

> I posted to LKML here:
>
> http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2007/2/12/54202
>
> because linux has a behavior -- which in my opinion is a bug -- that
> causes the OOM killer to almost always kill PostgreSQL first,
> regardless of whether it was truly the offending process or not.

If that isn't an argument for FreeBSD I don't know what is...

/linuxpoet

>
> So, find out which process truly caused the memory pressure that lead
> to the OOM being invoked, and fix that problem.
>
> You may also consider some other linux configuration options that make
> invocation of OOM killer less likely.
>
> Regards,
> Jeff Davis
>
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