Re: Postgres server crash

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

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

To: "Craig A. James" <cjames@modgraph-usa.com>

Cc: Richard Troy <rtroy@ScienceTools.com>, Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>, Russell Smith <mr-russ@pws.com.au>, pgsql-performance@postgresql.org

Date: 2006-11-19T06:51:05Z

Lists: pgsql-performance

"Craig A. James" <cjames@modgraph-usa.com> writes:
> Here's something I found googling for "memory overcommitment"+linux
>   http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/postfix/2000-04/0512.html

That might have been right when it was written (note the reference to a
2.2 Linux kernel), but it's 100% wrong now.  0 is the default, not-safe
setting.

			regards, tom lane