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From Dennis Bjorklund
Subject Re: PG Killed by OOM Condition
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.44.0510041048260.28238-100000@zigo.dhs.org
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In response to Re: PG Killed by OOM Condition  (Jeff Davis <jdavis-pgsql@empires.org>)
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On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Jeff Davis wrote:

> involved, but I could be wrong. Is it possible to be hit by the OOM
> killer if no applications use fork()?

Sure, whenever the system is out of mem and the os can't find a free page 
then it kills a process. If you check the kernel log you can see if the 
oom killer have been doing some work.

-- 
/Dennis Björklund

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