Re: kill -KILL: What happens?

On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 11:14 -0800, David Fetter wrote:
> I get that we can't prevent all pilot error, but I was hoping we could
> bullet-proof this a little more, especially in light of a certain
> extremely popular server OS's OOM killer's default behavior.

That's a good point. I'm not sure how much action can reasonably be
taken, however.

> Yes, I get that that behavior is crazy, and stupid, and that people
> should shut it off, but it *is* our problem if we let the postmaster
> start (or continue) when it's set that way.

As an aside, linux has actually changed the heuristic:


http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=a63d83f427fbce97a6cea0db2e64b0eb8435cd10

Regards,Jeff Davis