Re: Lot of postmaster processes

pg_ctl *status* -D /pgdata/pgsql/15/data

Sorry about that.

On Fri, Dec 20, 2024 at 3:23 AM kaido vaikla <kaido(dot)vaikla(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> 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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>>
>

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