Re: Socket problem using beta2 on Windows-XP

From: "Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>
To: "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, "Thomas Hallgren" <thhal(at)mailblocks(dot)com>
Cc: "PostgreSQL-development" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Socket problem using beta2 on Windows-XP
Date: 2005-09-30 05:44:39
Message-ID: 6BCB9D8A16AC4241919521715F4D8BCE92E6E2@algol.sollentuna.se
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> > 2. It happens while the postmaster is idle. If I leave it
> idle for a
> > while and then come back, I'll have a whole bunch of new
> processes in
> > my task-manager and zombies in tcpview.
>
> Hmm ... how many processes? Did you enable autovacuum
> perchance? If so, does the number of processes correspond
> approximately to the "autovacuum_naptime"?

IIRC, the win32 installer will enable autovacuum by default. And yes,
autovacuum was my first thought as well after Thomas last mail - that
would be a good explanation to why it happens when the postmaster is
idle.

//Magnus

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