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Preventing FreeBSD to kill PostgreSQL (aka OOM Killer prevention)

There are a lot of interesting articles on how to prevent the Out of Memory Killer (OOM killer in short) on Linux to ruin you day, or better your night. One particular well done explaination about how the OOM Killer works, and how to help PostgreSQL to survive, is, in my humble opinion, the one from Percona Blog. I tend to run PostgreSQL on FreeBSD machines, at least whenever it is possible, and quite frankly I have still a lot of things to learn. One of those little details is about FreeBSD OOM...

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