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Bruce Momjian
2007-12-16 11:24:25 +00:00
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<!-- $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>
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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