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Tom Lane wrote:
>Signal 9 almost has to be the OOM killer. You sure there's nothing
>about "Out of Memory" in /var/log/messages?
There is nothing, but I certainly can believe in the OOM scenario.
The problem has not happened again since I tweaked t
"Greg Sabino Mullane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> <2005-03-28 12:28:27 EST >LOG: background writer process (PID 17409) was
> terminated by signal 9
> Memory seems to be ok. No entries in /var/log/messages (this is a Linux
> 2.4 series kernel, gcc 3.4.1, dual 686 CPU, 1 SCSI drive system).
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> Well, it seems to be saying that it was terminated by SIGKILL which I
> can't see a reason to be internally generated. Is there anything else
> running on the system that might (for example) be taxing memory to cause
> an OOM killing spree or some
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
> Not many data points yet, but here's all the occurances:
>
> $ grep "signal 9" 5810.log
> <2005-03-28 03:38:14 EST >LOG: server process (PID 29216) was terminated by
> signal 9
> <2005-03-28 10:15:45 EST >LOG: background writer process (PID 2927
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> Could the situation have been going on longer than just today? How
> far back do your logs go? What, if anything, has changed on the
> system since the last time you're certain this problem wasn't
> happening?
Logs go back to February 22, when 8
On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 11:45:06PM -, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
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> I have a server running 8.0.1 which keeps terminating. I first noticed this
> today: it has happened about 7 times already.
Could the situation have been going on longer than just today? How
far back do your logs go? What,
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I have a server running 8.0.1 which keeps terminating. I first noticed this
today: it has happened about 7 times already. Periodically, the background
writer process is killed and drags the rest of the server down with it.
Most times PG restarts on i
