On Jan 31, 2011, at 7:55 AM, Bryan Murphy wrote:
> Last night we were hit by the out of memory killer. Looking at the following
> graph, you can clearly see unusual memory growth. This is a database server
> running Postgres 9.0.0.
[snip]
> Any advice? What should I be looking for?
Any pa
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Ben Chobot wrote:
> > Any advice? What should I be looking for?
>
> Any particular reason you are running the OOM killer on a database server?
> Why have the kernel set to overcommit memory in the first place?
Simply an oversight. That being said, it does not
