Re: [GENERAL] Swap Space and vm.oom_kill_allocating_task

2008-05-02 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 05:46:53PM +0300, Volkan YAZICI wrote: > In our current structure, responsiveness has the > highest priority and thus it is ok for us to cancel queries at that > instant and re-initiate connections. To achieve this effect, I started > to turn swap space off on some of the se

[GENERAL] Swap Space and vm.oom_kill_allocating_task

2008-05-02 Thread Volkan YAZICI
Hi, On some corner cases our database servers starts to use from swap space and that totally makes PostgreSQL (or any other I/O bound application) to fall upon its knees. In our current structure, responsiveness has the highest priority and thus it is ok for us to cancel queries at that instant an