Re: Postgres 9.2.13 on AIX 7.1

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Rainer Tammer <pgsql(at)spg(dot)schulergroup(dot)com>
Cc: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-bugs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Postgres 9.2.13 on AIX 7.1
Date: 2021-08-25 16:19:30
Message-ID: 585489.1629908370@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Rainer Tammer <pgsql(at)spg(dot)schulergroup(dot)com> writes:
> It did run the server with auto vacuum disabled for ~ 24h - no server
> shutdown.
> After re-enabling auto vacuum the server dies in less then 9 hours:

This is just speculation, but it fits the reported facts: somewhere
you've got something that tries to limit the resources consumed by
a background process, and when it decides the limit is exhausted
then it sends SIGINT. Without autovacuum waking up every so often,
the time for PG-as-a-whole to hit the hypothetical limit would be
much longer.

> Would it be worth adding additional code before every signal to trace
> the source ID and the target PID as well as the source/target process name?

I will be *mightily* astonished if the signal is coming from
within PG. The more so since it appears to be happening while
the instance is entirely idle.

regards, tom lane

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