Re: Total crash of my db-server - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Kevin Brown
Subject Re: Total crash of my db-server
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Msg-id 20021216230705.GB20180@filer
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In response to Re: Total crash of my db-server  ("Nigel J. Andrews" <nandrews@investsystems.co.uk>)
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Nigel J. Andrews wrote:
> Are you using a 'lazy' memory allocation setup. You could find that suddenly
> finding the requested memory isn't really there when told it was when
> requesting it has nasty effects.

But this wouldn't cause the kernel to crash.  The kernel might start
killing processes, possibly randomly, in an effort to free memory (and
others would die of their own accord as their attempts to allocate
memory fail), but it shouldn't cause the kernel itself to hang or
crash.


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Kevin Brown                          kevin@sysexperts.com

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