Re: strange hung processes

From: Ben Kim <bkim(at)coe(dot)tamu(dot)edu>
To: Jeremy Ashcraft <jashcraft(at)edgate(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: strange hung processes
Date: 2006-02-02 18:40:04
Message-ID: Pine.GSO.4.10.10602021235300.26724-100000@coe.tamu.edu
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>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'

Regards,

Ben Kim
Developer
http://benix.tamu.edu

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