Re: Immortal backend .... (kill -9 ?..)

On Wednesday 15 May 2002 07:46 pm, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Rajesh Kumar Mallah." <mallah(at)trade-india(dot)com>(by way of Rajesh Kumar Mallah.
<mallah(at)trade-india(dot)com>) writes:
> > now even kill -9 <pid of backend> does not releases it below is
> > the current status of backends:
>

I have checked by diskdrive there are no badblocks at least
in the drive. It is 34+34 GB SCSI IN raid 1 configuration.

But does "iostat" hints too much disk i/o at the moment?

is there anyway i can bring the load avergage to normal < 1
with rebooting and fscking...

can i give you more information ?

regds
mallah.

the system load has be > 10 for past 1 hrs at least

> I think there is something broken about your system. It is not normal
> to be in a state where you have unkillable processes. I'm wondering
> about disk drive problems leading to I/O requests that never complete,
> myself...
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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