Re: Setting oom_adj on linux?

On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 17:07, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
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> Magnus Hagander wrote:
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>> On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 16:45, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
>> wrote:
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>>> Magnus Hagander wrote:
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>>>> I realize this is a very platform-specific thing, but should we
>>>> consider setting the value of /proc/<pid>/oom_adj when running on
>>>> linux? See:
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>>> http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/20080201223336.GC24780%40alvh.no-ip.org
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>> Grr. I had zero recollectoin of that :S
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>> Can't find a useful consensus though?
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> It is probably worth trying to protect the postmaster in the init script.
> Beyond that things probably start to get fairly difficult.

Right. But AFAICS (though I haven't tested with -17), it will become
inherited to children, which is something we'd want to *undo*, no?

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