Re: Unknown Process DETAIL: Failed process was running: LISTEN dirty

On Thursday, June 21, 2018, Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at> wrote:

> Jorge Daniel wrote:
> > 2018-06-19 14:11:02.394 PDT rhost= app=:user=:db=:LOG: server process
> (PID 235545) was terminated by signal 9: Killed
> > 2018-06-19 14:11:02.394 PDT rhost= app=:user=:db=:DETAIL: Failed
> process was running: LISTEN dirty
> > 2018-06-19 14:11:02.394 PDT rhost= app=:user=:db=:LOG: terminating any
> other active server processes
>
> The "LISTEN dirty" is nice, but it has nothing to do with your problem.
>
> If you are not aware of any programs or people at large on your
> system that might "kill -9" harmless processes, you might have
> fallen prey to the OOM killer.
>
> Check your kernel log for message to confirm that.
> That would mean that you have run out of memory.
>
>
My random guess would be someone did:

Begin;
Listen dirty;

Walks away...

Someone/thing else sees a long running transaction and kills it.

OOM is just as likely though the listen showing as running just seems odd
to me.

David J.