Re: [ADMIN] trouble restarting a server

2007-05-31 Thread Peter Koczan
It finally reoccurred. Here's what I got from attaching to those processes from gdb. I attached with the postmaster binary, let me know if I should use something else. vero(su): ps axvw | grep notify 24556 ?Ss 0:03 0 3265 41262 29672 0.7 postgres: jerel csdb chef(36275) notify

Re: [ADMIN] trouble restarting a server

2007-05-22 Thread Peter Koczan
The release is 8.2.4. I haven't been able to reproduce the condition yet, but I will send along stack traces as soon as I can. I have this strange feeling that it's only going to happen when I find a reason to make a restart-worthy config change. Peter On 5/21/07, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr

Re: [ADMIN] trouble restarting a server

2007-05-21 Thread Tom Lane
"Peter Koczan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [ lots of processes stuck in "notify interrupt" code ] That's weird. If it's still in that state, or if you can reproduce it, could you attach to a few of those processes with gdb and get stack traces? Looking at the async.c code, an obvious candidate

[ADMIN] trouble restarting a server

2007-05-21 Thread Peter Koczan
Hi all, I'm having some trouble restarting a long-running server. Basically, pg_ctl can't kill any processes waiting on a notify interrupt. Here's what happened after trying a "stop -m fast" [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ps axvw | grep post 3606 ?S 3:30 23 3260 41575 6644 0.1 /usr/bin/