Re: Vacuum causing crashes - Mailing list pgsql-general

From David Mitchell
Subject Re: Vacuum causing crashes
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Msg-id 42BB644D.2040500@telogis.com
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In response to Re: Vacuum causing crashes  (Douglas McNaught <doug@mcnaught.org>)
Responses Re: Vacuum causing crashes  (Douglas McNaught <doug@mcnaught.org>)
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> If you're running Linux, it's possible that your system is
> overcommitted and low on memory and the kernel is picking random
> processes to kill.  There should be entries in the syslogs related to
> this, if that's what's happening.  There are ways to tell (some
> versions of) Linux not to overcommit memory.

Cheers Doug, that's exactly what it was. That explains a lot of
mysterious process deaths recently.

Thanks heaps

--
David Mitchell
Software Engineer
Telogis

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