Re: Setting oom_adj on linux?

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

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Alex Hunsaker <badalex@gmail.com>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-01-08T16:37:10Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Alex Hunsaker <badalex@gmail.com> writes:
> On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 07:27, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Then, somebody who wants the feature would build with, say,
>>    -DLINUX_OOM_ADJ=0
>> or another value if they want that.

> Here is a stab at that.

Anybody have an objection to this basic approach?  I'm in a bit of a
hurry to get something like this into the Fedora RPMs, so barring
objections I'm going to review this, commit it into HEAD, and then
make a back-ported patch I can use with 8.4 in Fedora.

			regards, tom lane