Re: Core dump

| % uname -sr
| SunOS 5.7
|
| from sys/signal.h:
|
| #define SIGUSR1 16 /* user defined signal 1 */
|
| Are you sure you don't have any application running amok sending
| signals to processes it shouldn't? Getting a superfolous signal
| seems out of place, this doesn't look like a crash or anything
| because USR1 isn't delivered by the kernel afaik.

Any of the applications that are running on that server do not use
SIGUSR1. I haven't looked through the code yet, but I figure postgres
was sending the SIGUSR1.

| And why are you using solaris? *smack*

Well, because our main database server is a sparc, and _someone_ never
got around to finishing his sparc port. :-)

-Dan
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