> Hi!
>
> I've been running postgres for an online sports service for some
> months now. Everything has worked quite smoothly, but this morning
> something strange happend.
>
> Two postgres processess started by the webserver each reached over
> 300M in size and slowed the machine down to a crawl. They had been
> running for a couple of minutes, after i killed them everything
> went back to normal.
>
> When i look into the pglog i see about 400 of these around the time of the
> event:
>
> FATAL: pq_endmessage failed: errno=32
> pq_flush: send() failed: Broken pipe
>
We've had this on one of our development systems (SuSE 6.3) last week -
but we do not try to look for the reason ....
Marten
