>We're running 7.4.9 and have run into something strange.
>A group of processes seem to have hung and cannot be killed. netstat
>showed that there were no active TCP connections at the time. Sending
>SIGTERM to the parent process caused PG to begin its shutdown, but it
>never finished. We then kill -9 the postmaster, which caused it to die,
>but these child procs remain, even after a clean restart. Our next step
>is to reboot the box, but before we do, I'm just curious anyone else has
>seen this, why this happened, and if anyone know ways to prevent this
>from happening again.....
If it's not sensitive information, what does this show?
lsof | grep 'pid of hung process'
Regards,
Ben Kim
Developer
http://benix.tamu.edu
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