diff options
| author | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> | 2007-12-17 13:48:31 +0000 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> | 2007-12-17 13:48:31 +0000 |
| commit | 048f69e242fd8da0c218c0426af2d15c47f7e97f (patch) | |
| tree | 458d5909bf30f74338ff6070e6e70badec56ae63 | |
| parent | 3791d26d4b6f2080d5e1fd1a008249f8ece29f6e (diff) | |
| download | postgresql-048f69e242fd8da0c218c0426af2d15c47f7e97f.tar.gz postgresql-048f69e242fd8da0c218c0426af2d15c47f7e97f.zip | |
Improve wording.
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml index ead886f4232..2ba97e31d50 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml,v 1.389 2007/12/16 11:24:25 momjian Exp $ --> +<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml,v 1.390 2007/12/17 13:48:31 alvherre Exp $ --> <chapter Id="runtime"> <title>Operating System Environment</title> @@ -1257,10 +1257,11 @@ Out of Memory: Killed process 12345 (postgres). On Linux 2.6 and later, an additional measure is to modify the kernel's behavior so that it will not <quote>overcommit</> memory. Although this setting will not prevent the OOM killer from - invoking altogether, it will lower the chances significantly and + being invoked 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 - because of other applications with careless memory allocation.) This + cause <function>fork()</> to fail when the machine appears to have + available memory but it is actually reserved + to other applications with careless memory allocation.) This is done by selecting strict overcommit mode via <command>sysctl</command>: <programlisting> |