From: | "Larry Rosenman" <lrosenman(at)pervasive(dot)com> |
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To: | "Ben Kim" <bkim(at)coe(dot)tamu(dot)edu>, "Jeremy Ashcraft" <jashcraft(at)edgate(dot)com> |
Cc: | <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: strange hung processes |
Date: | 2006-02-02 19:39:54 |
Message-ID: | D1D2D51E3BE3FC4E98598248901F75940328DAFF@ausmail2k4.aus.pervasive.com |
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Ben Kim wrote:
>> We're running 7.4.9 and have run into something strange.
>> A group of processes seem to have hung and cannot be killed. netstat
>> showed that there were no active TCP connections at the time.
>> Sending SIGTERM to the parent process caused PG to begin its
>> shutdown, but it never finished. We then kill -9 the postmaster,
>> which caused it to die, but these child procs remain, even after a
>> clean restart. Our next step is to reboot the box, but before we
>> do, I'm just curious anyone else has seen this, why this happened,
>> and if anyone know ways to prevent this from happening again.....
>
> If it's not sensitive information, what does this show?
>
> lsof | grep 'pid of hung process'
>
from the save-a-process committee:
lsof -p 'pid of hung process'
will give the same info :)
LER
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