Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Some time ago I found that it was possible to fiddle with a /proc entry > to convince the OOM to not touch the postmaster. A postmaster with the > raw IO capability bit set would be skipped by the OOM too killer (this > is an Oracle tweak AFAIK). > These are tricks that people could use in their init scripts to protect > themselves. Yeah? Details please? Does the bit get inherited by child processes? > (I wonder if the initscript supplied by the RPMs or Debian should > contain such a hack.) It would certainly make sense for my RHEL/Fedora-specific packages, since those are targeting a very limited range of kernel versions. Not sure about the situation for other distros. regards, tom lane
