On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 10:32:15PM -0800, William Yu wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: > >William Yu <wyu@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > >>Doing a ps -ef | grep postgres, I will see something like: > > > > > >>root 17034 1 0 21:41 ? 00:00:00 gdb -q -x /dev/stdin > >>postgres 9131 > >>postgres 9131 2712 0 20:31 ? 00:00:00 postgres: postgres > >>netdata [local] VACUUM > > > > > >So where did the gdb come from? > > To be honest, I do not know. I see the parent process is 1 so something > in the FCx kernel is triggering it. I just don't know where the logs for > something like this would be. Parent process 1 just means that it's either spawned by init or it's real parent process has died. I wouldn't put any stock in it. Try using "ps aux" to get the process state. Chances are it's in T (trace) state. You can try to kill -CONT it. Maybe strace it. -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@xxxxxxxxx> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Patent. n. Genius is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration. A patent is a > tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone > else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.
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