On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Claudio Freire <klaussfre...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Stephen Frost <sfr...@snowman.net> wrote: >> >> There's probably something else that's trying to grab all the memory and >> then tries to use it and PG ends up getting nailed because the kernel >> over-attributes memory to it. You should be looking for that other >> process.. > > Not only that, you probably should set up your oom killer not to kill > postmaster. Ever. >
Here: http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/kernel-resources.html -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
