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From: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>
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On Sat, 25 Apr 2015, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:

> > However, sometimes postgres processes got killed by 'out of swap space'.  
> > I suppose the source of problem could be that VSZ size of postgres processes 
> > (8-9 G) is bigger than swap congigured (4G).
> > 
> > Is there any way to prevent this, besides reallocating space for swap?
> 
> protect(1) ?

Of course.  I really do not understand how google hides the man page from me.

Thanks, and sorry fot the noise.

-- 
Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
[ FreeBSD committer:                                 marck@FreeBSD.org ]
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