Re: Immortal backend .... (kill -9 ?..)

Hi,

Two of the backends are showing status "D"  which "man ps"
describes as "uninterruptible sleep (usually IO)"

since kill -9 does not get me rid of these should i expect
postmaster which is still the parent process for those two
spoilt kids to terminate them?

regds
Mallah



On Wednesday 15 May 2002 07:46 pm, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Rajesh Kumar Mallah." <mallah@trade-india.com>(by way of Rajesh Kumar Mallah. <mallah@trade-india.com>) writes:
> > now even kill -9 <pid of backend> does not releases it below is
> > the current status of backends:
>
> I think there is something broken about your system.  It is not normal
> to be in a state where you have unkillable processes.  I'm wondering
> about disk drive problems leading to I/O requests that never complete,
> myself...
>
>             regards, tom lane

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