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Re: Setting oom_adj on linux?

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-01-04T16:59:46Z
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Is there a way to disable memory overcommit for particular processes?

I would think not --- the very essence of overcommit is that you're
promising more total memory than the system has got, and that's
inherently a global proposition.

			regards, tom lane