Re: Core dump - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Dan Moschuk
Subject Re: Core dump
Date
Msg-id 20001012135610.D689@spirit.jaded.net
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In response to Re: Core dump  (Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>)
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| % uname -sr
| SunOS 5.7
| 
| from sys/signal.h:
| 
| #define SIGUSR1 16      /* user defined signal 1 */
| 
| Are you sure you don't have any application running amok sending
| signals to processes it shouldn't?  Getting a superfolous signal
| seems out of place, this doesn't look like a crash or anything
| because USR1 isn't delivered by the kernel afaik.

Any of the applications that are running on that server do not use
SIGUSR1.  I haven't looked through the code yet, but I figure postgres
was sending the SIGUSR1.

| And why are you using solaris?  *smack*

Well, because our main database server is a sparc, and _someone_ never
got around to finishing his sparc port. :-)

-Dan
-- 
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called
upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.               -- Oscar Wilde


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