Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Some time ago I found that it was possible to fiddle with a /proc entry
> to convince the OOM to not touch the postmaster. A postmaster with the
> raw IO capability bit set would be skipped by the OOM too killer (this
> is an Oracle tweak AFAIK).
> These are tricks that people could use in their init scripts to protect
> themselves.
Yeah? Details please? Does the bit get inherited by child processes?
> (I wonder if the initscript supplied by the RPMs or Debian should
> contain such a hack.)
It would certainly make sense for my RHEL/Fedora-specific packages,
since those are targeting a very limited range of kernel versions.
Not sure about the situation for other distros.
regards, tom lane
