Ben Kim wrote:
>> 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'
>
from the save-a-process committee:

lsof -p 'pid of hung process'

will give the same info :) 

LER
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