Re: 8.1.2 postmaster died

Hi Ed,

I don't think its pgsql thats sending the SIGKILL its being done by the OS.
The reason can only be confirmed after looking at your log files but the
probability is that your OS ran out of memory and in order to protect itself
it had to kill the processes that were taking a lot of memory thus ended up
killing pgsql processes. Its just a hunch that i have but the reason can
only be confirmed after seeing your logs.

Regards
Talha Khan

On 11/9/06, Ed Loehr <ed(at)loehrtech(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday November 8 2006 12:30 pm, Shoaib Mir wrote:
> > To be specific you need to look at the syslogs to see if it
> > was actually some OOM killer or not.
>
> I checked all db logs + syslog, of course. All they show is the
> process receiving SIGKILL (followed by all others being shutdown
> as a result).
>
> Is there any circumstance at all under which pgsql itself would
> issue a sigkill to one of the backends?
>
> Ed
>