Re: [HACKERS] posmaster failed under high load

> My machine was very-very load during this test - I saw peak
> load about 65, a lot of swapping but test completes and system
> after 20 minutes of swapping remains usable. I still saw many
> postmasters (not postgres) processes running but after about 
> 30-40 minutes they gone. Actually pstree -a now shows
>  
>  |-postmaster -i -B 1024 -S -D/usr/local/pgsql/data/ -o -Fe
>   |  |-(postmaster)
>   |  `-postmaster 

ps should show our process listing display change.  They are postgres
processes, but without the exec() call we used to do, it shows this way
only on OS's that don't support ps arg display changes from inside the
process.



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