Re: Backends stuck in LISTEN

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Marko Tiikkaja <marko(at)joh(dot)to>
Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Backends stuck in LISTEN
Date: 2014-01-08 14:00:58
Message-ID: 20140108140058.GH6840@eldon.alvh.no-ip.org
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Marko Tiikkaja wrote:
> Hi people,
>
> Today we had a problem where around 30-40 backends were stuck in
> LISTEN for a long time. I snatched a core dump before we had to
> kill the server, and the backtrace looks like this:
>
> #0 0x00007f26dd17d5b7 in monstartup () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
> #1 0x00007f26d79e5c70 in ?? ()
> #2 0x00007f26d79e5c80 in ?? ()
> #3 0x00007f254d772b60 in ?? ()
> #4 0x00000000006359c5 in LWLockAcquire (lockid=87, mode=LW_SHARED)
> at /build/buildd/postgresql-9.1-9.1.9/build/../src/backend/storage/lmgr/lwlock.c:464

Hm, looks like either they got stuck trying to activate profiling (but
then Debian doesn't build its packages with gcc -pg, does it?), or the
backtrace is flawed for those upper frames. Maybe installing the libc
-dbg (I imagine it'd be libc6-dbg) package would be useful, if this
reoccurs.

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Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services

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