"Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
> After a crash and several restarts this morning, my postgres 7.2.1 is
> running very oddly.
> The processes are hanging in semwait or sbwait or biord states, but mostly
> sbwait.
Some random poking around in google says that sbwait state is "waiting
for data to arrive at/drain from a socket buffer". Network problems,
perhaps?
regards, tom lane