Excerpts from Heikki Linnakangas's message of vie jun 24 07:01:57 -0400 2011: > While reviewing Peter Geoghegan's postmaster death patch, I noticed that > if you turn on silent_mode, the LINUX_OOM_ADJ code in fork_process() > runs when postmaster forks itself into background. That re-enables the > OOM killer in postmaster, if you've disabled it in the startup script by > adjusting /proc/self/oom_adj. That seems like a bug, albeit a pretty > minor one. > > This may be a dumb question, but what is the purpose of silent_mode? > Can't you just use nohup?
I think silent_mode is an artifact from when our daemon handling in general was a lot more primitive (I bet there wasn't even pg_ctl then). Maybe we could discuss removing it altogether. -- Álvaro Herrera <alvhe...@commandprompt.com> The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
