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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: PosgreSQL backend process crashed with signal 9
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Msg-id 32700.1459954816@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: PosgreSQL backend process crashed with signal 9  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Pavel Suderevsky <psuderevsky@gmail.com> writes:
> Yes, OOM killer did the job, but is it normal that so lightweight query is
> consuming so much memory that OOM-killer to be invoked?

[ shrug... ]  The OOM killer is widely considered broken.  Its heuristics
don't interact terribly well with processes using large amounts of shared
memory.

            regards, tom lane

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