Re: Lot of postmaster processes

Actually this problem popped up and disappeared.
What did you expect to see executing "pg_ctl -D /pgdata/pgsql/15/data"
without any controll option a'la stop etc
br
Kaido

On Tue, 17 Dec 2024 at 20:59, Ron Johnson <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 1:42 PM kaido vaikla <kaido(dot)vaikla(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Output below is output of command
>>
>> $top -c -u postgres
>>
>> Can somebody tell me why there is so many postmaster running.
>> O/S: Rocky Linux release 9.4
>> pg rel: 15.10
>>
>> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+
>> COMMAND
>> 2837351 postgres 20 0 6408 256 256 D 9.8 0.0 0:02.02
>> free -h
>> 2837291 postgres 20 0 235300 1536 512 R 2.5 0.0 0:03.34
>> top -c -u postgres
>> 2837352 postgres 20 0 1257200 2004 128 R 0.8 0.1 0:00.16
>> /usr/pgsql-15/bin/postmaster -D /pgdata/pgsql/15/data/
>> 2836988 postgres 20 0 1261488 15708 12168 R 0.2 0.4 0:01.01
>> postgres: elvnetfix_instance: elvnetfixadmin elvnetfix x.x.x.x(8497) idle
>> 2836990 postgres 20 0 1261612 14556 11144 R 0.2 0.4 0:01.03
>> postgres: elvnetfix_instance: elvnetfixadmin elvnetfix x.x.x.x(12454) BEGIN
>> 2837353 postgres 20 0 1257200 1876 0 R 0.2 0.1 0:00.05
>> /usr/pgsql-15/bin/postmaster -D /pgdata/pgsql/15/data/
>>
> [snip]
>
> What do "pg_ctl -D /pgdata/pgsql/15/data" and "ps -ejH" say?
>
>
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