On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 12:05 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> If we're going to do this, I would say that we should also take the
> opportunity to get out from under the question of which kernel API
> we're dealing with. So perhaps a design like this:
>
> 1. If the environment variable PG_OOM_ADJUST_FILE is defined, it's
> the name of a file to write something into after forking. The typical
> value would be "/proc/self/oom_score_adj" or "/proc/self/oom_adj".
> If not set, nothing happens.
>
> 2. If the environment variable PG_OOM_ADJUST_VALUE is defined, that's
> the string we write, otherwise we write "0".
Please find attached the patch. It includes the doc changes as well.
Best regards,
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Gurjeet Singh http://gurjeet.singh.im/
EDB www.EnterpriseDB.com
