Re: pre-existing shared memory block is still in use after crashes

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
To: Dave Vitek <dvitek(at)grammatech(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pre-existing shared memory block is still in use after crashes
Date: 2010-05-06 15:42:36
Message-ID: 1273160162-sup-8176@alvh.no-ip.org
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Excerpts from Dave Vitek's message of jue may 06 10:44:34 -0400 2010:
> Hi all,
>
> Yesterday I ran into two backend crashes and then an autovacuum launcher
> process crash. The autovacuum log was:
> LOG: database system is ready to accept connections
> LOG: autovacuum launcher process (PID 3788) was terminated by exception
> 0xC0000142
> HINT: See C include file "ntstatus.h" for a description of the
> hexadecimal value.

0xC0000142 is STATUS_DLL_INIT_FAILED

Apparently this can mean insufficient heap space. I'm not sure if this is a
surprising thing to get during high load.

Not sure what can we do about it.

As for the failed restart, maybe the code that detects a conflicting shared
memory block could use a retry loop somewhere.
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