Re: [ADMIN] Stuck Spinlock Error Message

2003-08-14 Thread Tom Lane
Ludwig Isaac Lim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm guessing that the spinlock error occurs after there are around hundreds (or thousands) of queued postmaster processes. Thousands? How large is your max_connections parameter, anyway (and do you really have big enough iron to support it)? The

Re: [ADMIN] Stuck Spinlock Error Message

2003-08-14 Thread Ludwig Isaac Lim
Hi: --- Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What can cause a stuck spinlock? In theory, that shouldn't ever happen. Can you reproduce it? regards, tom lane I could not reproduce it, but I'll describe how error happen. I have a program that read a file large file

[ADMIN] Stuck Spinlock Error Message

2003-07-31 Thread Ludwig Isaac Lim
Hi: I notice the following error message in my postgresql log file: FATAL : s_lock (0x401db020) at lwlock.c Stuck spinlock. Aborting Version of my postgresql : PostgreSQL 7.2.3 on i686-pc-linux-gnu compiled by GCC 2.96 Operating System : RedHat 7.1 What can cause a stuck

Re: [ADMIN] Stuck Spinlock Error Message

2003-07-31 Thread Tom Lane
Ludwig Isaac Lim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What can cause a stuck spinlock? In theory, that shouldn't ever happen. Can you reproduce it? regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the