Re: [GENERAL] Mysterious Death of postmaster (-9)
Thanks Alvaro and Steven -- this may in fact be what happened as the monitor showed that at about that time memory definitely was taxed and showed oddnesses. I'll read up on this -- thanks very much for the (promising) clue! Greg W. -Original Message- From: Alvaro Herrera [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sat 11/13/2004 3:06 PM To: Gregory S. Williamson Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [GENERAL] Mysterious Death of postmaster (-9) On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 02:39:38PM -0800, Gregory S. Williamson wrote: Gregory, > We had an oddness today with one of of postgres servers (Dell 2 CPU box > running linux) and postgres 7.4. The server was under heavy load (50+ for a 1 > minutes spike; about 20 for the 15 minute average) with about 250 connections > (we still don't understand the heavy load itself). > > Looking in the logs I see: > 2004-11-13 13:30:28 LOG: unexpected EOF on client connection > 2004-11-13 13:30:40 LOG: unexpected EOF on client connection > 2004-11-13 13:38:28 LOG: could not send data to client: Broken pipe > 2004-11-13 13:42:15 LOG: server process (PID 30272) was terminated by signal > 9 This looks an awful lot like the Linux Out-Of-Memory killer got you. This happens when the Linux kernel overcommits memory. There is something about this on the documentation, and has been discussed in the past here. Please see the archives (www.pgsql.ru; look for "OOM killer" and "linux overcommit"). Luckily it didn't get your postmaster, as has happenned to other people ... -- Alvaro Herrera (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) "XML!" Exclaimed C++. "What are you doing here? You're not a programming language." "Tell that to the people who use me," said XML. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
Re: [GENERAL] Mysterious Death of postmaster (-9)
On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 02:39:38PM -0800, Gregory S. Williamson wrote: Gregory, > We had an oddness today with one of of postgres servers (Dell 2 CPU box > running linux) and postgres 7.4. The server was under heavy load (50+ for a 1 > minutes spike; about 20 for the 15 minute average) with about 250 connections > (we still don't understand the heavy load itself). > > Looking in the logs I see: > 2004-11-13 13:30:28 LOG: unexpected EOF on client connection > 2004-11-13 13:30:40 LOG: unexpected EOF on client connection > 2004-11-13 13:38:28 LOG: could not send data to client: Broken pipe > 2004-11-13 13:42:15 LOG: server process (PID 30272) was terminated by signal > 9 This looks an awful lot like the Linux Out-Of-Memory killer got you. This happens when the Linux kernel overcommits memory. There is something about this on the documentation, and has been discussed in the past here. Please see the archives (www.pgsql.ru; look for "OOM killer" and "linux overcommit"). Luckily it didn't get your postmaster, as has happenned to other people ... -- Alvaro Herrera (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) "XML!" Exclaimed C++. "What are you doing here? You're not a programming language." "Tell that to the people who use me," said XML. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
Re: [GENERAL] Mysterious Death of postmaster (-9)
On Sat, 13 Nov 2004, Gregory S. Williamson wrote: > Looking in the logs I see: > 2004-11-13 13:30:28 LOG: unexpected EOF on client connection > 2004-11-13 13:30:40 LOG: unexpected EOF on client connection > 2004-11-13 13:38:28 LOG: could not send data to client: Broken pipe > 2004-11-13 13:42:15 LOG: server process (PID 30272) was terminated by signal > 9 > 2004-11-13 13:42:16 LOG: terminating any other active server processes > 2004-11-13 13:42:16 WARNING: terminating connection because of crash of > another > server process > Just to rule out any internal chances, is there any way this shutdown > could have been triggered from within postgres itself ? Can anyone > construct any scenarios in which Linux, postgres or proxool could have > done this without human intervention ? Is it possible that you ran into the out of memory killer? That's the most likely thing beyond admin intervention I can think of. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[GENERAL] Mysterious Death of postmaster (-9)
Dear peoples, We had an oddness today with one of of postgres servers (Dell 2 CPU box running linux) and postgres 7.4. The server was under heavy load (50+ for a 1 minutes spike; about 20 for the 15 minute average) with about 250 connections (we still don't understand the heavy load itself). Looking in the logs I see: 2004-11-13 13:30:28 LOG: unexpected EOF on client connection 2004-11-13 13:30:40 LOG: unexpected EOF on client connection 2004-11-13 13:38:28 LOG: could not send data to client: Broken pipe 2004-11-13 13:42:15 LOG: server process (PID 30272) was terminated by signal 9 2004-11-13 13:42:16 LOG: terminating any other active server processes 2004-11-13 13:42:16 WARNING: terminating connection because of crash of another server process The EOFs are almost certainly Proxool closing connections from the client to the database. The sysad who was on call today swears he didn't send a kill signal (or any signal at all) -- suddenly the load dropped off and the server was down. It has restarted normally and shows no signs of being worse for the wear (this is really a read-only db so data corruption chances are minimal, I think). Just to rule out any internal chances, is there any way this shutdown could have been triggered from within postgres itself ? Can anyone construct any scenarios in which Linux, postgres or proxool could have done this without human intervention ? I have looked through manuals and some FAQs and newsgroup discussions and my gut feeling is that this can't be from postgres, but I thought I'd ask in the chance that I am, as is often the case, Unclear On The Concept. Thanks for any illumination, Greg Williamson DBA GlobeXplorer LLC ps if this is not the right list please let know what might be an appropriate one. gracias! ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html
