From: | Ed Loehr <eloehr(at)austin(dot)rr(dot)com> |
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To: | Jerry Lynde <jlynde(at)diligence(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Postmaster won't -HUP |
Date: | 2000-05-31 23:34:53 |
Message-ID: | 3935A19D.C9A667D2@austin.rr.com |
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Jerry Lynde wrote:
>
> I'm having a problem with a production server. Actually, there are two
> problems. The semi-trivial problem is that Postgres won't die using the
> service mechanism. As root, I "service postgres stop" and then "service
> postgres start" after a reasonable wait. The restart will earn me a
> "StreamServerPort: cannot bind to port" which indicates tht the process
> never died. A ps ax confirms the persistance of postmaster. When I kill -9
> the processes (postmaster, the /bin/sh -c postgres, and logger) they
> process will claim to start with "service postgres start" but it reports no
> PID and doesn't show up in ps ax. It is clearly not running at this point.
> The real problem, which caused all this debugging, is that twice so far,
> for no apparent reason, I have pegged the processors on the server. The
> machine has two 500mHz processors with 256 MB ram. I have a hard time
> believing that one small query can bring that machine to its knees, but it
> has, twice. The queries were run through a hard coded php front end (for
> testing purposes). Any insight on these two problems would be appreciated
> greatly.
Hello Jerry,
What version are you running?
What does your server log show? Any other logs?
Can you show us the small query, # of rows, etc?
Regards,
Ed Loehr
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