In response to Matthew Wakeling <matthew@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > > Probably the best solution is to just tell the kernel somehow to never > kill the postmaster. This thread interested me enough to research this a bit. In linux, it's possible to tell the OOM killer never to consider certain processes for the axe, using /proc magic. See this page: http://linux-mm.org/OOM_Killer Perhaps this should be in the PostgreSQL docs somewhere? -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ wmoran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Phone: 412-422-3463x4023
