Magnus Hagander wrote:
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 16:45, Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@commandprompt.com> wrote:
Magnus Hagander wrote:
I realize this is a very platform-specific thing, but should we
consider setting the value of /proc/<pid>/oom_adj when running on
linux? See:
http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/20080201223336.GC24780%40alvh.no-ip.org

Can't find a useful consensus though?

In http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-02/msg00049.php Tom points out that while you could make this adjustment in the init scripts for PostgreSQL, actually doing so is quite questionable as a packaging decision. That's where that thread ended as far as I was concerned. The best I think anyone could do here is to add such a capability into some of the init scripts, but it would probably need to be disabled by default. Since that sort of defeats the purpose of the change, I'm not sure what the benefit there is--if you have to turn it on, you might as well do something at a higher level instead.

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