On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 07:35:20PM -0400, Doug McNaught wrote: > Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Is there no sysctl way to disable such kills? > > The -ac kernel patches from Alan Cox have a sysctl to control memory > overcommit--you can set it to track memory usage and fail allocations > when memory runs out, rather than the random kill behavior. I'm not > sure whether those have made it into the stock kernel yet, but the > vendor kernels (such as Red Hat's) might have it too.
Yeah, I see it in the Mandrake kernel. But it's not in stock 2.4.19, so you can't assume everybody has it. -- Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>) "¿Qué importan los años? Lo que realmente importa es comprobar que a fin de cuentas la mejor edad de la vida es estar vivo" (Mafalda) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
