Greetings, * Andres Freund (and...@anarazel.de) wrote: > On 2019-10-09 12:29:18 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: > > I would say rather that if fork() is failing on your system, you have > > a not very stable system. > > I don't think that's really true, fwiw. It's often a good idea to turn > on strict memory overcommit accounting, and with that set, it's actually > fairly common to see fork() fail with ENOMEM, even if there's > practically a reasonable amount of resources. Especially with larger > shared buffers and without huge pages, the amount of memory needed for a > postmaster child in the worst case is not insubstantial.
I've not followed this thread very closely, but I agree with Andres here wrt fork() failing with ENOMEM in the field and not because the system isn't stable. Thanks, Stephen
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