Tom Lane wrote:
> William Yu <wyu(at)talisys(dot)com> writes:
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>>Doing a ps -ef | grep postgres, I will see something like:
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>>root 17034 1 0 21:41 ? 00:00:00 gdb -q -x /dev/stdin postgres 9131
>>postgres 9131 2712 0 20:31 ? 00:00:00 postgres: postgres netdata [local] VACUUM
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> So where did the gdb come from?
To be honest, I do not know. I see the parent process is 1 so something
in the FCx kernel is triggering it. I just don't know where the logs for
something like this would be.
>>The strange thing is I cannot kill the dead process.
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> It's not dead --- gdb has got it by the throat.