X-Original-To: pgsql-hackers-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [64.117.224.130]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90FA8D1B926 for ; Thu, 21 Aug 2003 14:16:13 -0300 (ADT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([64.117.224.193]) by localhost (neptune.hub.org [64.117.224.130]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 81921-06 for ; Thu, 21 Aug 2003 14:15:43 -0300 (ADT) Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (unknown [192.204.191.242]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15AB1D1B9B1 for ; Thu, 21 Aug 2003 14:15:42 -0300 (ADT) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h7LHEp5H014778; Thu, 21 Aug 2003 13:14:51 -0400 (EDT) To: Kurt Roeckx Cc: Josh Berkus , Jon Jensen , pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Can't find thread on Linux memory overcommit In-reply-to: <20030821171139.GA11389@ping.be> References: <200308201102.37559.josh@agliodbs.com> <3F44C6DC.4060105@dunslane.net> <200308210916.29790.josh@agliodbs.com> <14228.1061485453@sss.pgh.pa.us> <20030821171139.GA11389@ping.be> Comments: In-reply-to Kurt Roeckx message dated "Thu, 21 Aug 2003 19:11:39 +0200" Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 13:14:51 -0400 Message-ID: <14777.1061486091@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at postgresql.org X-Archive-Number: 200308/958 X-Sequence-Number: 42615 Kurt Roeckx writes: > On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 01:04:13PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: >> "Fatally corrupted"? That should not happen --- at worst, an OOM kill >> should lose your current sessions. We need more details. > Even if it kills the postmaster? Then you'd have to start a new postmaster. But it still shouldn't corrupt anything. (Since the postmaster has small and essentially constant memory usage, it's a pretty improbable target for the OOM killer, anyway.) regards, tom lane