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From Ben Chobot
Subject Re: Hit by the out of memory killer last night
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In response to Hit by the out of memory killer last night  (Bryan Murphy <bmurphy1976@gmail.com>)
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On Jan 31, 2011, at 7:55 AM, Bryan Murphy wrote:

> Last night we were hit by the out of memory killer.  Looking at the following graph, you can clearly see unusual
memorygrowth.  This is a database server running Postgres 9.0.0. 

[snip]

> Any advice?  What should I be looking for?

Any particular reason you are running the OOM killer on a database server? Why have the kernel set to overcommit memory
inthe first place?

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