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Re: Reasons for postgres processes beeing killed by SIGNAL 9?

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On Saturday, May 19, 2012 04:42:16 PM Clemens Eisserer wrote:
> Hi again,
> 
> We are still constantly getting postgresql processes killed by signal
> 9 from time to time, without any idea why or how.
> Syslog seems completly clean.
> 
> In case a postgresql process would exceed some restricted resources
> like file descriptors, would the kernel choose to terminate it using
> SIGKILL? Are there any other common examples / occurences where
> processes are terminated this way automatically?

Check dmesg or the kernel log. I'd guess it's the OOM-killer. Assuming this is 
on Linux, that is.


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