Re: Bad planning data resulting in OOM killing of postgres

On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 01:04:51PM +0100, Karsten Hilbert wrote:

> > Nope, that pops too. The query runs for a long time at a somewhat
> > normal rate of ram consumption, using ~1G of RSS then suddenly spikes
> > to about 6G, at which point the OOM killer pops it. Box has 8G of ram
> > and 4G of swap.
>
> By any chance:
>
> - when it happens has the kernel considered using swap ?
>
> - which kernel are you running ?
>
> There's been (for some workloads) massive problems with RAM
> exhaustion / swapping / OOM killer going wild with
> 4.7/4.8/some 4.9 kernels.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that it may actually not be
PostgreSQL's fault but rather the kernel invoking the OOM
killer way prematurely.

Karsten
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