Re: Mysterious Death of postmaster (-9) - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Stephan Szabo
Subject Re: Mysterious Death of postmaster (-9)
Date
Msg-id 20041113145704.I47348@megazone.bigpanda.com
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In response to Mysterious Death of postmaster (-9)  ("Gregory S. Williamson" <gsw@globexplorer.com>)
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On Sat, 13 Nov 2004, Gregory S. Williamson wrote:

> Looking in the logs I see:
> 2004-11-13 13:30:28 LOG:  unexpected EOF on client connection
> 2004-11-13 13:30:40 LOG:  unexpected EOF on client connection
> 2004-11-13 13:38:28 LOG:  could not send data to client: Broken pipe
> 2004-11-13 13:42:15 LOG:  server process (PID 30272) was terminated by signal 9
> 2004-11-13 13:42:16 LOG:  terminating any other active server processes
> 2004-11-13 13:42:16 WARNING:  terminating connection because of crash of another
>  server process

> Just to rule out any internal chances, is there any way this shutdown
> could have been triggered from within postgres itself ? Can anyone
> construct any scenarios in which Linux, postgres or proxool could have
> done this without human intervention ?

Is it possible that you ran into the out of memory killer?  That's the
most likely thing beyond admin intervention I can think of.


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