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From: Ray Stell <stellr@cns.vt.edu>
To: Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
Cc: "Hajek, Nick" <Nick.Hajek@vishay.com>, pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Server Crash
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On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 09:13:09AM -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 8:14 AM, Hajek, Nick <Nick.Hajek@vishay.com> wrote:
> It's quite possible you're running your machine out of memory / swap
> somehow and linux is killing the biggest, fattest process it can find,
> which is pgsql.

syslog would have something to say about that, also.