>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' Regards, Ben Kim Developer http://benix.tamu.edu
