Re: rogue process maxing cpu and unresponsive to signals

From: Jon Jensen <jon(at)jenseng(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Decibel!" <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>, pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: rogue process maxing cpu and unresponsive to signals
Date: 2007-08-16 21:27:38
Message-ID: 46C4C14A.9060602@jenseng.com
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> If my theory is right that it's stuck in a kernel call, then *maybe*
> "strace -p pid" would show the suspended call. Or maybe not. Probably
> worth trying if you haven't rebooted yet.
>
>

Tom and Jim,

Yeah, no luck on the strace either... ended up having to kill -9 it, so
we may never know the root cause. Thanks for the help/suggestions though.

Jon

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