From: D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@druid.net>
To: Rajesh Kumar Mallah. <mallah@trade-india.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Further info : Very high load average but no cpu utilization ?
Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 07:05:37 -0400
Message-ID: <20020512110537.F403E1BBC@druid.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200205121116.30681.mallah@trade-india.com>
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On May 12, 2002 01:46 am, Rajesh Kumar Mallah. wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I have observed that it is nearly impossible to
> get rid of postmaster or backends by any signal
> when it decides not to quit.
>
> Even the OS( Linux rh62) refuses to reboot in such a situation.
> and my system admin had to power off the system ,
> then fsck .... and stuff.
Not even kill -9 worked? I had that happen too but I thought it was a
problem with AIX. Kill -9 is supposed to kill any process. It can't be
caught. Is it possible that PostgreSQL is doing something that makes it that
unkillable?
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