The following bug has been logged online: Bug reference: 2165 Logged by: Matt Olson Email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PostgreSQL version: 8.1.2 Operating system: Windows XP Professional SP2 Description: excessive number of postgres.exe processes Details:
This is something that has changed between 8.0.4 and 8.1.2. Those are the only two installations I've made on this machine, so I can't say in which exact release the change occurred. When I run 8.1.2 on my Windows XP Pro box, and I let it sit for a while (idle, with no incoming connections at all), and then go to Task Manager, I see an excessive number of postgres.exe processes, each consuming about 60K of memory. If I shut down the postgres service, they do not disappear (a few of them do -- the normal postgres processes, but none of these mysterious zombies). Looking at the log, I see that an error occurs about every minute, saying Cannot duplicate socket 1860 for use in backend, and giving a winsock error code of 10038. I saw a thread about this on pgsql-hackers: http://groups.google.com/group/pgsql.hackers/browse_thread/thread/c44f55cdd9 6f4a96 Seems to be the same error. I *am* running some anti-virus, personal firewall software (F-Secure Internet Security 2006). And I haven't tried uninstalling it (that's a non-starter for me). I just wanted to report that it does in fact work with version 8.0.4, but doesn't with 8.1.2. I don't know if that helps or not. Thanks, Matt ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
