From: | Ed Loehr <ed(at)loehrtech(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Postgres General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: two shared memory segments? |
Date: | 2005-12-22 04:18:05 |
Message-ID: | 200512212118.05881.ed@loehrtech.com |
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On Wednesday December 21 2005 8:24 pm, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Ed L." <pgsql(at)bluepolka(dot)net> writes:
> > I have a cluster configured for ~800MB of shared memory
> > cache (shared_buffers = 100000), but ipcs shows TWO shared
> > memory segments of ~800MB belonging to that postmaster.
> > What kind of a problem do I have here?
>
> I'd say that you had a backend crash, causing the postmaster
> to abandon the original shared memory segment and make a new
> one, but the old segment is still attached to by a couple of
> processes.
Does that make sense even if the creating pid is the same for
both?
> There was a bug awhile back whereby the stats support
> processes failed to detach from shared memory and thus would
> cause a dead shmem segment to hang around like this. What PG
> version are you running?
This is an old 7.3.7 cluster.
Ed
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