Re: WEIRD CRASH?!?! - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Andrew Sullivan
Subject Re: WEIRD CRASH?!?!
Date
Msg-id 20030125134412.K20026@mail.libertyrms.com
Whole thread Raw
In response to Re: WEIRD CRASH?!?!  (Noah Silverman <noah@allresearch.com>)
List pgsql-performance
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 07:08:29PM -0500, Noah Silverman wrote:
> Yes,
> but I'm the only one logged into this box, and I didn't kill anything.
> It appears to have died all by itself.

Is this on Linux, and were you short on memory?  Linux, in a
completely brain-dead design, runs around 'kill -9'-ing random
processes when it starts to think the machine is going to exhaust its
memory (or at least it used to.  I dunno if it still does).

A

--
----
Andrew Sullivan                         204-4141 Yonge Street
Liberty RMS                           Toronto, Ontario Canada
<andrew@libertyrms.info>                              M2P 2A8
                                         +1 416 646 3304 x110


pgsql-performance by date:

Previous
From: Andrew Sullivan
Date:
Subject: Re: Having trouble with backups (was: Re: Crash Recovery)
Next
From: Ron Johnson
Date:
Subject: LOCK TABLE & speeding up mass data loads