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From: Kevin Grittner <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>
To: Hariraman Jayaraj <hariraman.ocp@gmail.com>
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: unexpected EOF on client connection / could not send data to client: Broken pipe
Date: Wed, 02 May 2012 12:26:39 -0500
Message-ID: <4FA127FF0200002500047700@gw.wicourts.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGy0TffVKV-vN1d+w24RrwjxSj3wuOuhBDpJvimJPC5eyzi06A@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAGy0TffVKV-vN1d+w24RrwjxSj3wuOuhBDpJvimJPC5eyzi06A@mail.gmail.com>

Hariraman Jayaraj <hariraman.ocp@gmail.com> wrote:
 
> We are using postgres 8.3 in Open Suse 11 server.
> Front end - Java, struts
> Middle ware - Jboss
> Backend - Postgres 8.3 DB.
 
It helps to know the exact version number and PostgreSQL
configuration settings.
 
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Server_Configuration
 
> Recently I am encoutering below mentioned error. Also by the time
> this error occuring, Linux server / Postgres Server is too slow
> and at times it is not responding at all.
 
Can you run `vmstat 1` while things are slow?  It sounds like you
might be getting into heavy swapping due to memory over-commit.  Can
you show us the result of running `free -m`?
 
> 2012-05-02 12:14:09 IST LOG:  unexpected EOF on client connection
> 2012-05-02 12:14:09 IST LOG:  unexpected EOF on client connection
> 2012-05-02 12:14:09 IST LOG:  unexpected EOF on client connection
> 2012-05-02 12:14:10 IST LOG:  unexpected EOF on client connection
> 2012-05-02 12:14:11 IST LOG:  unexpected EOF on client connection
> 2012-05-02 12:14:11 IST LOG:  unexpected EOF on client connection
> 2012-05-02 12:14:12 IST LOG:  unexpected EOF on client connection
> 2012-05-02 12:14:12 IST LOG:  unexpected EOF on client connection
> 2012-05-02 12:14:13 IST LOG:  could not send data to client:
> Broken pipe
 
Those messages mean that the TCP connection from the client was
broken by something other than the PostgreSQL server.
 
-Kevin



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