Heads up: it appears that the Linux stable kernel series is about to get a sane VM system from Andrea Arcangeli, which has proper page accounting and does not have an Out Of Memory killer at all.
This will probably take a while to make its way into vendor kernels, and even then we'll need to keep the warnings in the docs for people running older kernels. I am not sure at this stage what its status is for the 2.6 kernel series. I will be keeping an eye on this. cheers andrew ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org