Re: Postmaster won't -HUP

Jerry Lynde wrote:
> 
>         I'm having a problem with a production server. Actually, there are two
> problems. The semi-trivial problem is that Postgres won't die using the
> service mechanism. As root, I "service postgres stop" and then "service
> postgres start" after a reasonable wait. The restart will earn me a
> "StreamServerPort: cannot bind to port" which indicates tht the process
> never died. A ps ax confirms the persistance of postmaster. When I kill -9
> the processes (postmaster, the /bin/sh -c postgres, and logger) they
> process will claim to start with "service postgres start" but it reports no
> PID and doesn't show up in ps ax. It is clearly not running at this point.
>         The real problem, which caused all this debugging, is that twice so far,
> for no apparent reason, I have pegged the processors on the server. The
> machine has two 500mHz processors with 256 MB ram. I have a hard time
> believing that one small query can bring that machine to its knees, but it
> has, twice. The queries were run through a hard coded php front end (for
> testing purposes). Any insight on these two problems would be appreciated
> greatly.

Hello Jerry,

What version are you running?

What does your server log show?  Any other logs?

Can you show us the small query, # of rows, etc?

Regards,
Ed Loehr