Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-3.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D38063429C for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:13:07 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 12749-01 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:13:00 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: delayed 00:06:37.975334 by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from oproxy2-pub.bluehost.com (oproxy2-pub.bluehost.com [67.222.39.60]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DD098634299 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:12:59 -0300 (ADT) Received: (qmail 5344 invoked by uid 0); 24 Aug 2010 16:06:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box498.bluehost.com) (66.147.242.98) by oproxy2.bluehost.com with SMTP; 24 Aug 2010 16:06:19 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=consistentstate.com; h=Received:From:Organization:To:Subject:Date:User-Agent:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Disposition:Message-Id:X-Identified-User; b=luoYREknw09jQmSgrU2RZVqCkxgFXxp7jNZu4pjtx6lEQi7BumNpDSKFgyPznNOhLzsA+mCSlCupwdb7g4P6F/SgIgR+bpiQUkrpSsjKfvRa0xQNxWmRzrDsjFJpFnFg; Received: from 173-164-51-9-colorado.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([173.164.51.9] helo=[192.168.1.136]) by box498.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (SSLv3:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Onw0x-0004uA-I8; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:06:19 -0600 From: Kevin Kempter Organization: Consistent State To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: Postgresql 8.3 on OSX hangs Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:08:00 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <201008241008.00551.cs_dba@consistentstate.com> X-Identified-User: {3049:box498.bluehost.com:consist3:consistentstate.com} {sentby:smtp auth 173.164.51.9 authed with kevink+consistentstate.com} X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201008/177 X-Sequence-Number: 35426 Hi all; we have a client experiencing the following scenario: - Postgresql 8.3.10 plus postgis 1.5.1 - Both databases stop responding to queries and several of the backend processes show as being in an uninterruptible state (state "Us" according to a ps aux) - The client killed the processes, did a pg_dumpall and a restore only to find the condition happen again the next day - The client read every file reported by lsof as being accessed by a backend process without issues.. thus it seems to NOT be a disk I/O issue. Thoughts?