Re: Re: It happened again: Server hung up solid

*sigh*

> gcore 87721
gcore: /proc/87721/file: No such file or directory



On Mon, 8 May 2000, Michael Robinson wrote:

> >Try killing the postmaster itself in such a way as to produce a coredump
> >(kill -ABORT ought to do) and get a backtrace from that.
> 
> The "gcore" command (on most modern unices) will generate a core dump of a 
> running process without killing the process.  It seems that would be more
> useful in this circumstance.
> 
>     -Michael Robinson
> 

Marc G. Fournier                   ICQ#7615664               IRC Nick: Scrappy
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