Re: Socket problem using beta2 on Windows-XP

With great help from Magnus, who advised me to use lspfix from cexx.org
to list my lsp's, I found that I had gapsp.dll, "Neoteris DNS Provider"
installed. An uninstall of the Neoteris software made this problem go away.

Regards,
Thomas Hallgren

Thomas Hallgren wrote:
> I added some traces to the code. I know that the following happens
> when I start a postmaster.
>
> StartupDatabase will call internal_fork_exec, it calls
> write_inheritable_socket 4 times and succeeds.
>
> During the first iteration of ServerLoop:
> StartBackgroundWriter will call internal_fork_exec and succeed.
> pgstat_forkexec will call internal_fork_exec and succeed.
>
> In the second iteration of ServerLoop, pgstat_forkexec will again
> call will call internal_fork_exec. This time it fails.
> According to the log it fails on line:
>
> write_inheritable_socket(&param->pgStatSock, pgStatSock, childPid);
>
> i.e. on it's second call to write_inheriable_socket. The failure is in
> a postgres.exe process, not postmaster.exe (and that's why I can't
> debug propery on Windoz).
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Regards,
> Thomas Hallgren
>
>
> Magnus Hagander wrote:
>
>>>> If it's two zombies per minute, then I bet it's the stat
>>> collector and
>>>> stat bufferer. They are restarted by the postmaster if not
>>> found to
>>>> be running.
>>>>
>>> That would make some sense, because the stat processes need to set
>>> up new sockets (for the pipe between them). The autovacuum theory
>>> didn't hold any water in my eyes because autovacuum doesn't create
>>> any new sockets.
>>>
>>> However, why two zombies? That would mean that the grandchild
>>> process started, which should mean that the pipe was already created
>>> ...
>>>
>>> Does Windows have any equivalent of strace whereby we could watch
>>> what's happening during stats process launch?
>>>
>>
>>
>> First of all, I won't be able to dig into this any more until next week
>> - sorry about that. But others are always free to :-)
>>
>> There is no strace equivalent builtin, but you can get an addon from
>> http://www.bindview.com/Services/RAZOR/Utilities/Windows/strace_readme.c
>> fm. Don't put it on a production box permanently, though, it tends to
>> cause BSODs in some cases.
>>
>> //Magnus
>>
>>
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