Received: from localhost.localdomain (postgresql.org [64.49.215.8]) by localhost (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50070475C44 for ; Sun, 12 May 2002 07:06:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from druid.net (druid.net [216.126.72.98]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECCCA475AFB for ; Sun, 12 May 2002 07:05:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: by druid.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id F403E1BBC; Sun, 12 May 2002 07:05:37 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" Reply-To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org To: "Rajesh Kumar Mallah." , Tom Lane Subject: Re: Further info : Very high load average but no cpu utilization ? Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 07:05:37 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org References: <200205111007.47338.mallah@trade-india.com> <13062.1021132784@sss.pgh.pa.us> <200205121116.30681.mallah@trade-india.com> In-Reply-To: <200205121116.30681.mallah@trade-india.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020512110537.F403E1BBC@druid.net> X-Archive-Number: 200205/113 X-Sequence-Number: 7749 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? -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain | Democracy is three wolves http://www.druid.net/darcy/ | and a sheep voting on +1 416 425 1212 (DoD#0082) (eNTP) | what's for dinner.