Re: configurability of OOM killer

From: Decibel! <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Markus Bertheau <mbertheau(dot)pg(at)googlemail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, Dawid Kuroczko <qnex42(at)gmail(dot)com>, Ron Mayer <rm_pg(at)cheapcomplexdevices(dot)com>, Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: configurability of OOM killer
Date: 2008-02-08 17:36:14
Message-ID: 20080208173614.GX1212@decibel.org
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On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 06:42:07AM +0000, Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 08:45 +0600, Markus Bertheau wrote:
>
> > What about allowing shared_buffers to be only greater than it was at
> > server start and allocating the extra shared_buffers in one or more
> > additional shm segments?
>
> Sounds possible.

If we build that, it's probably not a far stretch to just allocate
shared memory as a number of smaller segments; that would allow us to
grow as well as shrink.
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Decibel!, aka Jim C. Nasby, Database Architect decibel(at)decibel(dot)org
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