Re: oom_killer - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Claudio Freire
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Msg-id BANLkTikh5mUX734aXEGKhbUCt2QkscW9Zw@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: oom_killer  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
Responses Re: oom_killer  (Claudio Freire <klaussfreire@gmail.com>)
Re: oom_killer  (Tory M Blue <tmblue@gmail.com>)
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On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:
>
> There's probably something else that's trying to grab all the memory and
> then tries to use it and PG ends up getting nailed because the kernel
> over-attributes memory to it.  You should be looking for that other
> process..

Not only that, you probably should set up your oom killer not to kill
postmaster. Ever.

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