| From: | "Scott Marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Hervé Piedvache <bill(dot)footcow(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Kernel kills postgres process - help need |
| Date: | 2008-01-09 22:59:45 |
| Message-ID: | dcc563d10801091459l52f22784nd400f28bf8e7b1b1@mail.gmail.com |
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On Jan 9, 2008 3:57 PM, Hervé Piedvache <bill(dot)footcow(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
SNIP
> 0+0
> Jan 9 20:30:48 db2 kernel: Free swap = 15623168kB
> Jan 9 20:30:48 db2 kernel: Total swap = 15623172kB
> Jan 9 20:30:48 db2 kernel: Free swap: 15623168kB
> Jan 9 20:30:48 db2 kernel: oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x84d0, order=0
> Jan 9 20:30:48 db2 kernel: Mem-info:
> Jan 9 20:30:48 db2 kernel: DMA per-cpu:
> Jan 9 20:30:48 db2 postgres[7634]: [2-1] LOG: background writer process (PID
> 7639) was terminated by signal 9
This makes no sense to me. The OS is showing that there's
16G free swap. Why is it killing things? I'm betting there's some
bug with too large of a swap resulting in some kind of wrap around or
something.
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