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From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Dangerous hint in the PostgreSQL manual
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Msg-id 20071211141557.GA10710@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: Dangerous hint in the PostgreSQL manual  (Listaccount <lst_hoe01@kwsoft.de>)
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Listaccount wrote:

> I would have not been surprised if the OOM-Killer would go around in case
> of short memory but i was surprised to see fork failed with a system having
> 1GB Memory available.

We've had *a lot* of problem reports due to the OOM killer.

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Alvaro Herrera                               http://www.PlanetPostgreSQL.org/
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