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From: "Rajesh Kumar Mallah." <mallah@trade-india.com>
Organization: Infocom Network Limited.
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Further info : Very high load average but no cpu utilization ?
Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 17:34:12 +0530
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Hi,

I vaguely remember  postmaster not responding to=20
kill -9 even on Linux,

i can confirm next time when (god forbids) my postmaster
goes crazy. ;-)

i feel lucky now that my postmaster is up for more that=20
(24 hrs)=20

(no offence intended , there have been instances of my postmaster=20
running for as  long as 3 months)

regds
mallah.

On Monday 13 May 2002 03:51 pm, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
> 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.

--=20
Rajesh Kumar Mallah,
Project Manager (Development)
Infocom Network Limited, New Delhi
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