OOM Killer / PG9 / RHEL 6.1 - Mailing list pgsql-general

From David Kerr
Subject OOM Killer / PG9 / RHEL 6.1
Date
Msg-id 20111102164227.GA64585@mr-paradox.net
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Responses Re: OOM Killer / PG9 / RHEL 6.1  (Alex Hunsaker <badalex@gmail.com>)
Re: OOM Killer / PG9 / RHEL 6.1  (Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>)
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Howdy,

just a quick check, is
vm.overcommit_memory = 2
vm.swappiness = 0

Still the way to go with PG9.0 / RHEL 6.1 (64bit) ?

I know we gained some control over the OOM Killer in newer kernels
and remember reading that maybe postgres could handle it in a different way now.

Thanks

Dave

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