Received: from malur.postgresql.org ([217.196.149.56]) by arkaria.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UN5b8-0003Zg-7S for pgsql-admin@arkaria.postgresql.org; Tue, 02 Apr 2013 18:06:18 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=postgresql.org) by malur.postgresql.org with smtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UN5b7-0001lv-0V for pgsql-admin@arkaria.postgresql.org; Tue, 02 Apr 2013 18:06:17 +0000 Received: from makus.postgresql.org ([2001:4800:7903:4::125]) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UN5b6-0001lq-9y for pgsql-admin@postgresql.org; Tue, 02 Apr 2013 18:06:16 +0000 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us ([66.207.139.130]) by makus.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UN5az-0006Eg-Pj for pgsql-admin@postgresql.org; Tue, 02 Apr 2013 18:06:15 +0000 Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id r32I68h3005383; Tue, 2 Apr 2013 14:06:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Tom Lane To: Bert cc: "pgsql-admin@postgresql.org" Subject: Re: slave restarts with kill -9 coming from somewhere, or nowhere In-reply-to: References: Comments: In-reply-to Bert message dated "Tue, 02 Apr 2013 19:34:02 +0200" Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 14:06:08 -0400 Message-ID: <5382.1364925968@sss.pgh.pa.us> X-Pg-Spam-Score: -4.2 (----) List-Archive: List-Help: List-ID: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Mailing-List: pgsql-admin Precedence: bulk Sender: pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org Bert writes: > I'm running the latest postgres version (9.2.3), and today for the first > time I encountered this: > 12774 2013-04-02 18:13:10 CEST LOG: server process (PID 28463) was > terminated by signal 9: Killed AFAIK there are only two possible sources of signal 9: a manual kill, or the Linux kernel's OOM killer. If it's the latter there should be a concurrent entry in the kernel logfiles about this. If you find one, suggest reading up on how to disable OOM kills, or at least reconfigure your system to make them less probable. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin