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From Steve Crawford
Subject Re: Reasons for postgres processes beeing killed by SIGNAL 9?
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In response to Reasons for postgres processes beeing killed by SIGNAL 9?  (Clemens Eisserer <linuxhippy@gmail.com>)
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On 05/17/2012 03:44 PM, Clemens Eisserer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Recently single postgres processes are killed by SIGNAL 9 on our
> virtual vvmware managed server without any manual interaction -
> causing lost transactions.
> Any ideas what could be the reason? Could postmaster the source of the signal?
>
> We are running postgreql 8.4.7 on Linux 64-bit.
...

Out of memory or OOM killer?? Any such messages in system logs?

Cheers,
Steve

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