Re: pg_ctl inappropriately timing out?

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pg_ctl inappropriately timing out?
Date: 2005-06-08 16:26:21
Message-ID: 200506080926.21510.josh@agliodbs.com
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Tom,

> It strikes me that the server shouldn't ever get a couple minutes behind
> on writing dirty buffers; this seems more like a bgwriter configuration
> issue than pg_ctl's fault. Consider that in a standard Unix
> configuration you will get about 20 seconds between SIGTERM and SIGKILL
> when init wants to shut you down ...

Well, I can run an actual timer if you like. But it's definitely more than
20 seconds. And we're using the default bgwriter config, perhaps I should
set it to 0?

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Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

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