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

On Sun, 7 May 2000, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Are we still releasing 7.0 tomorrow?

I don't know ... this problem has me nervous, but I can't seem to
re-create it on the fly :(  It happened twice so far today, and I'm
working on improving logging to see if I can narrow it down ...

I would like to *at least* postpone until Wednesday to see if I can
recreate this between now and then ... will spend a good part of tomorrow
seeing if I can get a more decent amount of data logged, to narrow her
down ...

We still have to write up a release announcement (can someone summarize
the key features of v7.0?), so that gives us a little bit of time ...


> 
> > 
> > *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
> > Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
> > primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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Marc G. Fournier                   ICQ#7615664               IRC Nick: Scrappy
Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org