Re: [HACKERS] posmaster failed under high load

> On Thu, 6 May 1999, Oleg Bartunov wrote:
> 
> > How to explain that process with PID 701 which shown in ps output
> > as (postmaster) after some time becomes looks as usual postgres
> 
> Because 'postmaster' is written in the kernel task_struct, whereas the
> task's argv[] says 'postgres'.
> 
> The only way to get around this is to do an execv(), at which point the
> kernel will recopy argv[0].

We used to do execv(), but stopped doing it for performance reasons.

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