Hello, I'm currently running PostgreSQL 7.4.6 under NetBSD 2.0 (Release), but with a custom kernel. I can start it, and it performs normally, i.e. I can access my databases and such. Now I'm primarily using it with the GNUCash PostgreSQL backend. After I've finished using it, and leaving it to itself for a while, it starts to consume all CPU time for, apparently, no good reason (because it's not doing anything). I started it thusly: /usr/pkg/bin/postmaster -i -D /usr/pkg/pgsql/data/ And the following output appeared: LOG: database system was interrupted at 2005-01-14 13:52:42 CET LOG: checkpoint record is at 0/2329AA0 LOG: redo record is at 0/2329AA0; undo record is at 0/0; shutdown FALSE LOG: next transaction ID: 46264; next OID: 142900 LOG: database system was not properly shut down; automatic recovery in progress LOG: record with zero length at 0/2329AE0 LOG: redo is not required LOG: database system is ready ps auxww | grep pgsql shows: pgsql 15786 94.8 0.3 4380 568 p2 R+ 4:13PM 5:13.13 /usr/pkg/bin/postmaster -i -D /usr/pkg/pgsql/data/ (postgres) pgsql 24309 0.0 0.0 5368 4 p2 IW+ 4:13PM 0:00.01 postmaster: stats buffer process (postgres) pgsql 25177 0.0 0.0 4420 4 p2 IW+ 4:13PM 0:00.01 postmaster: stats collector process (postgres) pgsql 29008 0.0 0.0 0 0 p2 ZW+ - 0:00.00 (postgres) Top gives: 15786 pgsql 64 0 4380K 568K RUN 5:56 93.80% 93.80% postgres Now, the program won't respond to kill, or to a ctrl+c on the command line, I have to kill it with -9. I've tried to run it with a higher debug level, but this does not give any useful information, except for a sequence of (of course, while performing query's with gnucash, a lot of query information is shown, but after quitting it and leaving postmaster to itself only this is shown): DEBUG: proc_exit(0) DEBUG: shmem_exit(0) DEBUG: exit(0) DEBUG: child process (PID 24738) exited with exit code 0 With varying PID's. After a while, this stops, and everything hangs as described above. The only thing to remark is that it does not seem to happen when running with -d 5 (but I'm not really sure). As said, I'm running NetBSD 2.0, with my own kernel, on the i386 platform. I hope this gives someone enough information to make a guess about the cause, although I realise the problem is quite vague. Berteun ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx)