In response to Matthew Wakeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Probably the best solution is to just tell the kernel somehow to never > kill the postmaster.
This thread interested me enough to research this a bit. In linux, it's possible to tell the OOM killer never to consider certain processes for the axe, using /proc magic. See this page: http://linux-mm.org/OOM_Killer Perhaps this should be in the PostgreSQL docs somewhere? -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 412-422-3463x4023 -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
