Received: from localhost.localdomain (postgresql.org [64.49.215.8]) by localhost (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D4A2475991 for ; Mon, 13 May 2002 06:21:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from druid.net (druid.net [216.126.72.98]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84440475970 for ; Mon, 13 May 2002 06:21:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: by druid.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6BB3C1AFD; Mon, 13 May 2002 06:21:20 -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: Mon, 13 May 2002 06:21:19 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] References: <200205111007.47338.mallah@trade-india.com> <29864.1021217871@sss.pgh.pa.us> <200205131020.07302.mallah@trade-india.com> In-Reply-To: <200205131020.07302.mallah@trade-india.com> Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020513102120.6BB3C1AFD@druid.net> X-Archive-Number: 200205/119 X-Sequence-Number: 7755 On May 13, 2002 12:50 am, Rajesh Kumar Mallah. wrote: > Its advocated "dont kill -9 the postmaster" and i rarely do that. Advocated or not, kill -9 is supposed to be the last resort. If nothing else works then kill -9 should kill any Unix process. As Tom says, if it doesn't then it suggests an OS (probably driver) problem. Now if only I could get IBM to understand that. They still claim that my problem is that PostgreSQL (an "unsupported" application) is doing something to catch SIGKILL. -- 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.