Re: Further info : Very high load average but no cpu utilization ?

From: "D'Arcy J(dot)M(dot) Cain" <darcy(at)druid(dot)net>
To: "Rajesh Kumar Mallah(dot)" <mallah(at)trade-india(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Further info : Very high load average but no cpu utilization ?
Date: 2002-05-13 10:21:19
Message-ID: 20020513102120.6BB3C1AFD@druid.net
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On May 13, 2002 12:50 am, Rajesh Kumar Mallah. wrote:
> Its advocated "dont kill -9 the postmaster" and i rarely do that.

Advocated or not, kill -9 is supposed to be the last resort. If nothing else
works then kill -9 should kill any Unix process. As Tom says, if it doesn't
then it suggests an OS (probably driver) problem.

Now if only I could get IBM to understand that. They still claim that my
problem is that PostgreSQL (an "unsupported" application) is doing something
to catch SIGKILL.

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