Re: Postgres server crash - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Postgres server crash
Date
Msg-id 6028.1163919065@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Postgres server crash  ("Craig A. James" <cjames@modgraph-usa.com>)
Responses Re: Postgres server crash  (Ron Mayer <rm_pg@cheapcomplexdevices.com>)
Re: Postgres server crash  (Ron Mayer <rm_pg@cheapcomplexdevices.com>)
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"Craig A. James" <cjames@modgraph-usa.com> writes:
> Here's something I found googling for "memory overcommitment"+linux
>   http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/postfix/2000-04/0512.html

That might have been right when it was written (note the reference to a
2.2 Linux kernel), but it's 100% wrong now.  0 is the default, not-safe
setting.

            regards, tom lane

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