On 9:53 am 07/18/08 "Douglas McNaught" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dedicated database server you really don't ever want to have the OOM > killer triggered.
Found that yesterday (vm.overcommit_memory=2). Agree that this is better than OOM. I still ran out of memory last night and postgres just failed on the malloc(), which as you mentioned is better. Reduced work_mem to 8MB and trying again. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general