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From Michael Robinson
Subject Re: It happened again: Server hung up solid
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Msg-id 200005080250.KAA02965@netrinsics.com
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In response to It happened again: Server hung up solid  (The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>)
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>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

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