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

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Rajesh Kumar Mallah(dot)" (by way of Rajesh Kumar Mallah(dot) <mallah(at)trade-india(dot)com>) <mallah(at)trade-india(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Immortal backend .... (kill -9 ?..)
Date: 2002-05-15 14:16:51
Message-ID: 8181.1021472211@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"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 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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