On Wednesday 06 April 2005 18:52, Tom Lane wrote: > Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > What I don't understand is that with true strict overcommit, the kernel > > should never need to kill your process since there is always in > > principle enough room. > > Indeed. Are you *sure* you have overcommit turned off? How to know this point ? I mean is there any sure action to do to know this point ... ? > That should disable the OOM killer altogether. You should probably go read > the kernel documentation rather than assume Postgres' documentation knows > what it's talking about ;-) hugh ? I can't read that ... PostgreSQL documentation is my bible ... the only good explanation are always inside the PostgreSQL documentation ... :o) May be a correction for the next release ? -- Hervé Piedvache NOUVELLE ADRESSE - NEW ADDRESS : Elma Ingénierie Informatique 3 rue d'Uzès F-75002 - Paris - France Pho. 33-144949901 Fax. 33-144882747 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster