Re: Understanding was terminated by signal 9: Killed

Can confirm this.

On 10/20/21 4:00 PM, Dan Smith wrote:
> I'm 100% certain you can downsize given the selected instance type is
> compatible with your engine version. Process is the same as scaling up and
> will result in downtime. I don't see anything in documentation regarding
> AWS RDS Console, API's or Terraform documentation that would lead me to
> believe it cares about anything more than having valid parameters
> combinations regarless of engine / size.
>
> Just to be certain, I created a t3.medium on my personal account with
> Postgres 13.3 and resized to a t3.micro immediately after it was
> provisioned.  No issues.
>
>
> Summary of modifications
>
> You are about to submit the following modifications. Only values that will
> change are displayed. Carefully verify your changes and click Modify DB
> Instance.
> Attribute Current value New value
> DB instance class db.t3.medium db.t3.micro
>
>
> No issues Modifying.
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Dan Smith
>
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 1:27 PM Michel SALAIS <msalais(at)msym(dot)fr
> <mailto:msalais(at)msym(dot)fr>> wrote:
>
> Be careful!
> I am not sure but upgrade for a larger instance can't be temporary. I
> think you can't downgrade to the original instance  class thereafter...
>
> --
> Michel SALAIS
>
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : John Scalia <jayknowsunix(at)gmail(dot)com <mailto:jayknowsunix(at)gmail(dot)com>>
> Envoyé : mercredi 20 octobre 2021 01:12
> À : Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us <mailto:tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>>
> Cc : Wells Oliver <wells(dot)oliver(at)gmail(dot)com
> <mailto:wells(dot)oliver(at)gmail(dot)com>>; pgsql-admin
> <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org <mailto:pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>>
> Objet : Re: Understanding was terminated by signal 9: Killed
>
> You could always change the size of the RDS instance to something
> larger than what it currently is running, even just temporarily.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On Oct 19, 2021, at 6:01 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us
> <mailto:tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>> wrote:
> >
> > Wells Oliver <wells(dot)oliver(at)gmail(dot)com
> <mailto:wells(dot)oliver(at)gmail(dot)com>> writes:
> >> In an RDS instance with 16GB RAM, I ran a long query which started by
> >> setting temp_buffers to 16GB, so I think I plum ran out of memory,
> >> but can anyone point me in a different direction if the following log
> >> messages indicate something else is awry?
> >
> > Yeah, this:
> >
> >> 2021-10-19 21:10:37 UTC::@:[24752]:LOG:  server process (PID 25813)
> >> was terminated by signal 9: Killed
> >
> > almost certainly indicates the Linux OOM killer at work. If you were
> > running your own system I'd point you to [1], but I doubt that RDS
> > lets you put your hands on the relevant knobs.
> >
> >            regards, tom lane
> >
> > [1]
> >
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/kernel-resources.html#LINUX-ME
> <https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/kernel-resources.html#LINUX-ME>
> > MORY-OVERCOMMIT
> >
> >
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>
> --
> Best regards,
>
> Dan Smith

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