Re: Vacuum causing crashes

From: David Mitchell <david(dot)mitchell(at)telogis(dot)com>
To: Douglas McNaught <doug(at)mcnaught(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Vacuum causing crashes
Date: 2005-06-24 01:39:25
Message-ID: 42BB644D.2040500@telogis.com
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> If you're running Linux, it's possible that your system is
> overcommitted and low on memory and the kernel is picking random
> processes to kill. There should be entries in the syslogs related to
> this, if that's what's happening. There are ways to tell (some
> versions of) Linux not to overcommit memory.

Cheers Doug, that's exactly what it was. That explains a lot of
mysterious process deaths recently.

Thanks heaps

--
David Mitchell
Software Engineer
Telogis

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