Re: Properly handle OOM death?

Tomas Pospisek <tpo2@sourcepole.ch>

From: Tomas Pospisek <tpo2@sourcepole.ch>
To: pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2023-03-18T22:02:22Z
Lists: pgsql-general
On 13.03.23 21:25, Joe Conway wrote:

> Hmm, well big +1 for having swap turned on, but I recommend setting 
> "vm.overcommit_memory=2" even so.

I've snipped out the context here, since my advice is very unspecific: 
do use swap only as a safety net. Once your system starts swapping 
performance goes down the toilet.
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