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Another OOM killer rewrite

Another OOM killer rewrite

Posted Jun 10, 2010 14:24 UTC (Thu) by sean.hunter (guest, #7920)
In reply to: Another OOM killer rewrite by ringerc
Parent article: Another OOM killer rewrite

The way it's written it's trivial to wrap your postgresql startup in a shellscript that pokes /proc and thus makes the oom killer not whack it. This flexibility of local configuration is always going to be better than a bunch of in-kernel heuristics.


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