Re: postgres invoked oom-killer

2010/5/7 Silvio Brandani <silvio(dot)brandani(at)tech(dot)sdb(dot)it>

> Greg Spiegelberg ha scritto:
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>> Is this system a virtual machine?
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>> Greg
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>> No is not,
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> is up and runnig from 4 months , 60 G of data in 9 different databases.
> Lately we import a new schema in one of those databases .
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Okay. I asked because I have seen VMware's balloon driver trigger the OOMK
in Linux killing and killing databases. It wasn't enough in these cases to
simply turn off OOMK. VMware has a setting for each VM to "reserve" memory
for that VM ensuring the balloon driver won't be used to a certain extent or
at all. Then and only then would disabling OOMK really work.

Greg