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PostgreSQL and the OOM Killer: Why You Must Use Strict Memory Overcommit

Hacker News Top · 2026-07-03 Cached

This blog post explains why PostgreSQL databases are vulnerable to OOM killer and how using strict memory overcommit can prevent catastrophic outages. It also discusses a kernel bug and heuristics for setting the proper overcommit limit.

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