"John Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Might it be worth while protecting the postmaster from an OOM Kill on > Linux by setting /proc/{pid}/oom_adj to -17 ? > (Described vaguely in mm/oom_kill.c)
(a) wouldn't that require root privilege? (b) how would we determine whether we are on a system to which this applies? (c) is it actually documented in a way that makes you think it'll be a permanently supported feature (ie, somewhere outside the source code)? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match