Re: Pre-allocation of shared memory ... - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Pre-allocation of shared memory ...
Date
Msg-id 20030611234256.GJ1932@dcc.uchile.cl
Whole thread Raw
In response to Re: Pre-allocation of shared memory ...  (Doug McNaught <doug@mcnaught.org>)
List pgsql-hackers
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 07:35:20PM -0400, Doug McNaught wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> 
> > Is there no sysctl way to disable such kills?
> 
> The -ac kernel patches from Alan Cox have a sysctl to control memory
> overcommit--you can set it to track memory usage and fail allocations
> when memory runs out, rather than the random kill behavior.  I'm not
> sure whether those have made it into the stock kernel yet, but the
> vendor kernels (such as Red Hat's) might have it too.

Yeah, I see it in the Mandrake kernel.  But it's not in stock 2.4.19, so
you can't assume everybody has it.

-- 
Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>)
"¿Qué importan los años?  Lo que realmente importa es comprobar que
a fin de cuentas la mejor edad de la vida es estar vivo"  (Mafalda)


pgsql-hackers by date:

Previous
From: Doug McNaught
Date:
Subject: Re: Pre-allocation of shared memory ...
Next
From: "Marc G. Fournier"
Date:
Subject: Re: Question about simple function folding optimization