Re: [HACKERS] Quite strange crash

[Tom Lane]

Denis Perchine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> It's worth noting here that modern Unixes run around killing user-level
>> processes more or less at random when free swap space (and sometimes
>> just RAM) runs low.

> That's not the case for sure. There are 512Mb on the machine, and when I had 
> this problem it was compltely unloaded (>300Mb in caches).

The fact that VACUUM processes seemed to be preferential victims
suggests a resource limit of some sort.  I had suggested a CPU-time
limit, but perhaps it could also be disk-pages-written.

                        regards, tom lane