Re: Setting oom_adj on linux?

Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> Do we need to make the value configurable? I'd certainly find it
> interesting to set backends to say 5 or something like that, that
> makes them less likely to be killed than any old "oops opened too big
> file in an editor"-process, but still possible to kill if the system
> is *really* running out of memory.

I don't want to go to the trouble of creating (and documenting) a
configure option for this.  Much less a GUC ;-)

What I suggest is that we do something like
#ifdef LINUX_OOM_ADJ...fprintf(oom, "%d\n", LINUX_OOM_ADJ);...#endif

Then, somebody who wants the feature would build with, say,-DLINUX_OOM_ADJ=0
or another value if they want that.
        regards, tom lane