> It's not an easy decision. Linux isn't wrong. Solaris isn't wrong. > Most people never hit these problems, and the people that do, are > just as likely to hit one problem, or the other. The grass is always > greener on the side of the fence that isn't hurting me right now, > and all that. > > Cheers, > mark >
Thanks, a very informative reply. Do you have some references where I can learn more? I think that I've run into the OOM killer without a fork() being involved, but I could be wrong. Is it possible to be hit by the OOM killer if no applications use fork()? Regards, Jeff Davis ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster