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

On Mon, 8 May 2000, The Hermit Hacker wrote:

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

Accroding to TFM:
 The process identifier, pid, must be given on the command line.  If no executable image is specified, gcore will use
``/proc/<pid>/file''.

So you might try:

gcore /path_to_postmaster/postmaster 87721

or something close to that.

Vince.

> 
> 
> 
> 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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