diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml index 86555ba2ba..eda35adfea 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ - + Operating System Environment @@ -1256,14 +1256,11 @@ 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 overcommit memory. - Although this setting will not prevent the OOM killer from - 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 but it is actually reserved - to other applications with careless memory allocation.) This - is done by selecting strict overcommit mode via - sysctl: + Although this setting will not prevent the OOM killer from being invoked + altogether, it will lower the chances significantly and will therefore + lead to more robust system behavior. This is done by selecting strict + overcommit mode via sysctl: sysctl -w vm.overcommit_memory=2