Re: [BUGS] BUG #5305: Postgres service stops when closing Windows session

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> Dave Page wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>> > We have already found that exceeding desktop heap might cause a
>> > CreateProcess to return success but later fail with a return code of
>> > 128, which causes a server restart.
>>
>> That doesn't mean that this is desktop heap exhaustion though - just
>> that it can cause the same effect.
>
> Right, but it is the only possible server crash cause we have come up
> with so far.

Understood - I'm just unconvinced it's the cause - aside from the
point I made earlier about heap exhaustion being very predictable and
reproducible (which this issue apparently is not), when the server is
run under the SCM, it creates a logon session for that service alone
which has it's own heap allocation which is entirely independent of
the allocation used by any interactive logon sessions.

So unless there's a major isolation bug in Windows, any desktop heap
usage in an interactive session for one user should have zero effect
on a non-interactive session for another user.

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