| From: | "D'Arcy J(dot)M(dot) Cain" <darcy(at)druid(dot)net> |
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| 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: | 2002-05-12 11:05:37 |
| Message-ID: | 20020512110537.F403E1BBC@druid.net |
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On May 12, 2002 01:46 am, Rajesh Kumar Mallah. wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I have observed that it is nearly impossible to
> get rid of postmaster or backends by any signal
> when it decides not to quit.
>
> Even the OS( Linux rh62) refuses to reboot in such a situation.
> and my system admin had to power off the system ,
> then fsck .... and stuff.
Not even kill -9 worked? I had that happen too but I thought it was a
problem with AIX. Kill -9 is supposed to kill any process. It can't be
caught. Is it possible that PostgreSQL is doing something that makes it that
unkillable?
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