On Saturday, May 19, 2012 04:42:16 PM Clemens Eisserer wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> We are still constantly getting postgresql processes killed by signal
> 9 from time to time, without any idea why or how.
> Syslog seems completly clean.
>
> In case a postgresql process would exceed some restricted resources
> like file descriptors, would the kernel choose to terminate it using
> SIGKILL? Are there any other common examples / occurences where
> processes are terminated this way automatically?
Check dmesg or the kernel log. I'd guess it's the OOM-killer. Assuming this is
on Linux, that is.