Re: [GENERAL] troubleshooting 8.1.2

2006-07-15 Thread Ed L.
On Tuesday July 11 2006 3:16 pm, Tom Lane wrote: > "Ed L." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > We are wondering if our swap space was too small, and when > > the swap reservation failed, the OS was sending SIGINT?? > > You'd have to check your OS documentation ... I thought HPUX > would just return EN

Re: [GENERAL] troubleshooting 8.1.2

2006-07-11 Thread Tom Lane
"Ed L." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We are wondering if our swap space was too small, and when the > swap reservation failed, the OS was sending SIGINT?? You'd have to check your OS documentation ... I thought HPUX would just return ENOMEM to brk() for such cases. It doesn't do memory overcomm

Re: [GENERAL] troubleshooting 8.1.2

2006-07-11 Thread Douglas McNaught
"Ed L." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We are wondering if our swap space was too small, and when the > swap reservation failed, the OS was sending SIGINT?? I've never heard of an OS sending that particular signal for a memory shortage. 'strace' may be your friend here. -Doug --

Re: [GENERAL] troubleshooting 8.1.2

2006-07-11 Thread Tom Lane
"Ed L." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We have 4 8.1.2 cluster running on an HP-UX 11.23 Itanium, repeatedly > dying with the following log message: > 2006-07-11 12:52:27 EDT [21582]LOG: received fast shutdown request *Something* is sending SIGINT to the postmaster --- it's simply not possibl

Re: [GENERAL] troubleshooting 8.1.2

2006-07-11 Thread Ed L.
On Tuesday July 11 2006 1:17 pm, Tom Lane wrote: > "Ed L." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > We have 4 8.1.2 cluster running on an HP-UX 11.23 Itanium, > > repeatedly dying with the following log message: > > > > 2006-07-11 12:52:27 EDT [21582]LOG: received fast > > shutdown request > > *Somethi

[GENERAL] troubleshooting 8.1.2

2006-07-11 Thread Ed L.
We have 4 8.1.2 cluster running on an HP-UX 11.23 Itanium, repeatedly dying with the following log message: 2006-07-11 12:52:27 EDT [21582]LOG: received fast shutdown request 2006-07-11 12:52:27 EDT [21591]LOG: shutting down 2006-07-11 12:52:27 EDT [21591]LOG: database system is shu