Re: Reasons for postgres processes beeing killed by SIGNAL 9? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Alan Hodgson
Subject Re: Reasons for postgres processes beeing killed by SIGNAL 9?
Date
Msg-id 3605585.hDLB9QBq9s@skynet.simkin.ca
Whole thread Raw
In response to Re: Reasons for postgres processes beeing killed by SIGNAL 9?  (Clemens Eisserer <linuxhippy@gmail.com>)
List pgsql-general
On Saturday, May 19, 2012 04:42:16 PM Clemens Eisserer wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> We are still constantly getting postgresql processes killed by signal
> 9 from time to time, without any idea why or how.
> Syslog seems completly clean.
>
> In case a postgresql process would exceed some restricted resources
> like file descriptors, would the kernel choose to terminate it using
> SIGKILL? Are there any other common examples / occurences where
> processes are terminated this way automatically?

Check dmesg or the kernel log. I'd guess it's the OOM-killer. Assuming this is
on Linux, that is.


pgsql-general by date:

Previous
From: David Kerr
Date:
Subject: haproxy / pgpool / rhcs
Next
From: Lonni J Friedman
Date:
Subject: Re: significant performance hit whenever autovacuum runs after upgrading from 9.0 -> 9.1