From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: /proc/self/oom_adj is deprecated in newer Linux kernels
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 17:19:02 +0300
Message-ID: <1316355543.12186.9.camel@vanquo.pezone.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <29121.1316185073@sss.pgh.pa.us>
References: <29121.1316185073@sss.pgh.pa.us>
On fre, 2011-09-16 at 10:57 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> So it looks like it behooves us to cater for oom_score_adj in the
> future. The simplest, least risky change that I can think of is to
> copy-and-paste the relevant #ifdef code block in fork_process.c.
> If we do that, then it would be up to the packager whether to #define
> LINUX_OOM_ADJ or LINUX_OOM_SCORE_ADJ or both depending on the behavior
> he wants.
There are lots of reasons why that won't work: backports, forward ports,
derivatives, custom kernels, distribution upgrades, virtual hosting.
ISTM that we could at least query the currently used kernel version.
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