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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: Alex Hunsaker <badalex@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-01-09T22:07:29Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Alex Hunsaker <badalex@gmail.com> writes:
> On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 14:06, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
>> If word of this gets out, every
>> server process on Linux will excuse itself from the OOM killer. And
>> then the kernel guys will add another setting to override the process
>> preference.

> ... maybe it will convince them its time to fix the damn thing.
> Although postgres really is kind of special in this regard.

Yeah.  If they had saner handling of shared-memory accounting, maybe
there wouldn't be a need for us to kluge around the OOM logic.

			regards, tom lane