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| author | Bruce Momjian | 2007-12-16 11:24:25 +0000 |
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| committer | Bruce Momjian | 2007-12-16 11:24:25 +0000 |
| commit | 7b618017fdd99dafe26c6aaf107123c260ccad9e (patch) | |
| tree | 8ecc027858fa5decbc6a7b2dfb9344259ba776d4 /doc/src | |
| parent | e5a9ef55ef475887fd1b697db821a3899fd6cadb (diff) | |
Update OOM wording.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml index 13b3879b88d..ead886f4232 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml,v 1.388 2007/12/16 11:22:33 momjian Exp $ --> +<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml,v 1.389 2007/12/16 11:24:25 momjian Exp $ --> <chapter Id="runtime"> <title>Operating System Environment</title> @@ -1259,8 +1259,9 @@ Out of Memory: Killed process 12345 (postgres). Although this setting will not prevent the OOM killer from invoking altogether, it will lower the chances significantly and will therefore lead to more robust system behavior. (It might also - cause fork() to fail when the machine appears to have available - memory.) This is done by selecting strict overcommit mode via + cause fork() to fail when the machine appears to have available memory + because of other applications with careless memory allocation.) This + is done by selecting strict overcommit mode via <command>sysctl</command>: <programlisting> sysctl -w vm.overcommit_memory=2 |