Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL and Solaris 7?

On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Daryl W. Dunbar wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I am running 6.4.2 on Sparc/Solaris 2.7.  Occasionally (far more
> often than I would like - which is never :), the postmaster refuses
> connections.  Upon investigation, there are 48 postmaster processes
> running.  If one kills the parent and restarts, all is well for some
> time.  Attached is a chunk of output from postmaster, unfortunately
> it does not timestamp, so it is hard to see when what happened.  I'm
> most disturbed about the device space message.  None of my disks are
> even close to full, nor have been...
> 
> Help! Advice? Ways to gather further info?  Is this a Solaris 7
> thing?

We just got our Solaris 7 CDs, and I'm going to be installing it on one of
our quieter machines in coming weeks, but...

have you tried doing a 'truss -p' on the parent process?

Marc G. Fournier                                
Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org