Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL and Solaris 7?

On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Daryl W. Dunbar wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am running 6.4.2 on Sparc/Solaris 2.7. Occasionally (far more
> often than I would like - which is never :), the postmaster refuses
> connections. Upon investigation, there are 48 postmaster processes
> running. If one kills the parent and restarts, all is well for some
> time. Attached is a chunk of output from postmaster, unfortunately
> it does not timestamp, so it is hard to see when what happened. I'm
> most disturbed about the device space message. None of my disks are
> even close to full, nor have been...
>
> Help! Advice? Ways to gather further info? Is this a Solaris 7
> thing?

We just got our Solaris 7 CDs, and I'm going to be installing it on one of
our quieter machines in coming weeks, but...

have you tried doing a 'truss -p' on the parent process?

Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy(at)hub(dot)org secondary: scrappy(at){freebsd|postgresql}.org