Re: Kernel kills postgres process - help need - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Robert Treat
Subject Re: Kernel kills postgres process - help need
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In response to Re: Kernel kills postgres process - help need  ("Joshua D. Drake" <[email protected]>)
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On Wednesday 09 January 2008 18:21, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:17:14 -0800
>
> Jeff Davis <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I posted to LKML here:
> >
> > http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2007/2/12/54202
> >
> > because linux has a behavior -- which in my opinion is a bug -- that
> > causes the OOM killer to almost always kill PostgreSQL first,
> > regardless of whether it was truly the offending process or not.
>
> If that isn't an argument for FreeBSD I don't know what is...
>

Funny, it looked like an argument for Solaris to me. ;-)

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Robert Treat
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