On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 08:29:07AM +0200, Thomas Hallgren wrote:
> Magnus Hagander wrote:
>
> >Right. Please try turning it off and see if the problem goes away.
> >
> >
> No, wait! It does *not* go away. Do I need to do anything more than
> setting this in my postgresql.conf file:
>
> autovacuum = false # enable autovacuum subprocess?
>
> and restart the service?
>
> The two zombie entries occurs directly when I start the service, then
> there's two new entries popping up every minute.
If it's two zombies per minute, then I bet it's the stat collector and
stat bufferer. They are restarted by the postmaster if not found to be
running.
The weird thing is that the postmaster _should_ call wait() for them if
it detects that they died (when receiving a SIGCHLD signal AFAIR). If
it doesn't, maybe it indicates there's a problem with the signal
handling on Win32.
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