Re: Getting FATAL: terminating connection due to administrator command

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Joshua J(dot) Kugler" <joshua(at)eeinternet(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, peter(dot)hopfgartner(at)r3-gis(dot)com
Subject: Re: Getting FATAL: terminating connection due to administrator command
Date: 2010-09-15 19:34:03
Message-ID: 23573.1284579243@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Joshua J. Kugler" <joshua(at)eeinternet(dot)com> writes:
> On Wednesday 15 September 2010, Peter Hopfgartner elucidated thus:
>> The server is a rather bare bone server for web mapping, so basically
>> PostgreSQL/PostGIS, Apache, PHP, Tomcat and little other stuff. The
>> Dell software was the only which did not come from
>> CentOS/EPEL/argeo/in-house RPM packages. I've removed the Dell stuff
>> completely, but the problem is still there.

> Are you running out of memory and getting killed by the OOM killer?

The OOM killer hits its victims with SIGKILL (kill -9), so we can rule
that out as not matching Peter's symptoms. This is definitely an
unwanted SIGTERM not SIGKILL.

regards, tom lane

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