On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 10:04 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > I'd prefer not to go there, at least not without a demonstration that > this will solve a bug that's unsolvable otherwise. If a child is > really stuck in a state that doesn't accept SIGQUIT, it probably > won't accept SIGKILL either (eg, uninterruptable disk wait). Or maybe > we just have some errant code that is blocking SIGQUIT; but that's > a garden variety bug IMO, not something that needs major new postmaster > logic to work around. strace on the backend processes all showed them waiting at futex(0x7f1ee5e21c90, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 2, NULL Notably, the first argument was the same for all of them. I gather that a futex is a Linux kernel thing, which is probably then used by glibc to implement some pthreads stuff. Anyone know more? But yes, using SIGKILL on these processes works without problem. -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
