Re: Further info : Very high load average but no cpu utilization ? - Mailing list pgsql-sql

On May 13, 2002 12:50 am, Rajesh Kumar Mallah. wrote:
> Its advocated "dont kill -9 the postmaster" and i rarely do that.

Advocated or not, kill -9 is supposed to be the last resort.  If nothing else 
works then kill -9 should kill any Unix process.  As Tom says, if it doesn't 
then it suggests an OS (probably driver) problem.

Now if only I could get IBM to understand that.  They still claim that my 
problem is that PostgreSQL (an "unsupported" application) is doing something 
to catch SIGKILL.

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