Thanks! I do use "svc -t" when restarting, so I will try -k and observe what happens. I'll also now look more carefully at the logs -- I think there are some clues I haven't yet picked up. Dave
From: "Janine Sisk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 9:04 PM > We have found that some sites, when restarted with "svc -t", go into > a funky half-shut-down state and stay there. I don't know why, and > it seems to be very consistently some sites (all using PG) and not > others. For those sites we use "svc -k", in other words send the > kill signal instead of the terminate signal. If you have things set > up properly it doesn't really matter, the site should come back up > either way. I don't know if this is your problem or not, but it's > worth a try. > > janine > > On Jan 16, 2006, at 5:18 PM, Dave Siktberg wrote: > > > Janine Sisk recently wrote that she restarts her AOLservers every > > night to > > help prevent lockups. I'd like to do that, but often when I do a > > restart I > > get several postgresql threads that chew up nearly all the cpu > > cycles for 30 > > minutes or more and effectively block access to my site. It > > appears to be a > > shorter wait if I do a restart each day, but I'm loathe to risk > > making the > > site unavailable for a long time even in the wee hours. > > > > Any idea what could cause this? How to fix it? A year ago I did not > > observe this behavior. > > > > Dave Siktberg -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
