Re: Any Plans for cross database queries on the same server?

On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Jeff Davis wrote:
>
> I know this is off-topic for this list, but is there a place I can get
> some details about linux OOM killer, and the conditions that cause this
> OS hang when you turn off the OOM killer? I'd like to really know what's
> happening, and also know more about the OS hanging condition that you're
> talking about. I'd also like to know how safe the "safe" settings really
> are ( vm.overcommmit_memory=2 and vm.oom-kill=0? ).
>
> Right now I'm using FreeBSD (in a large part due to the Linux OOM
> killer), but I have a different set of problems on FreeBSD.
>
> Regards,
> Jeff Davis

...Back in, oh, October perhaps it was, I did some research on this subjet
and posted my findings on one of the PG lists, so you can look into the PG
archives for OOM and my name and likely find a summary and some URLs to
more complete information.

Richard

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