From: Michael Stone <mstone+postgres@mathom.us>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Postgres server crash
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 08:20:22 -0500
Message-ID: <20061127132019.GA27186@mathom.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061126234101.GG39519@nasby.net>
References: <19583.1163700841@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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<20061126234101.GG39519@nasby.net>
On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 05:41:02PM -0600, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
>What's interesting is that apparently FreeBSD also has overcommit (and
>IIRC no way to disable it), yet I never hear people going off on OOM
>kills in FreeBSD.
Could just be that nobody is using FreeBSD. <ducks>
Seriously, though, there are so many linux installations out there that
you're statistically more likely to see corner cases. FWIW, I know a
whole lotta linux machines that have never had OOM-killer problems.
Remember, though, that anecodotal evidence isn't.
Mike Stone
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