From: Rajesh Kumar Mallah. <mallah@trade-india.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Further info : Very high load average but no cpu utilization ?
Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 10:20:07 +0530
Message-ID: <200205131020.07302.mallah@trade-india.com> (raw)
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Well,
Its advocated "dont kill -9 the postmaster" and i rarely do that.
Postmaster tends to be immortal ,
And it is *not* so only for the case when postmaster is trying to
write past 2GB limit ,
I have only recently started logging postmaster to that extent.
regds
mallah.
On Sunday 12 May 2002 09:07 pm, Tom Lane wrote:
> "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy@druid.net> writes:
> > 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?
>
> Could there be a kernel bug associated with processes that are trying to
> write past the 2Gb limit? The postmaster is certainly not doing
> anything deliberate to make itself unkillable, but on some platforms
> kill -9 will not work on processes that are wedged in a system call...
>
> regards, tom lane
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