On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 22:58, Tom Lane wrote: > > It also logged that it was killed with signal 9, although I didn't kill it! > > Is there something weird going on here? > > Is this Linux? The Linux kernel seems to think that killing > randomly-chosen processes with SIGKILL is an appropriate response to > running out of memory. I cannot offhand think of a more brain-dead > behavior in any OS living or dead, but that's what it does.
Just FYI, I believe the 2.6.x series of kernels will rectify this situation. -- Greg Copeland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Copeland Computer Consulting ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
