Alexey Luchko wrote:
> We've tried to restart the service. It was looking like the service
> stopped successfully, but two postgres.exe processes left running.
> One of them was utilizing one core. It had no tcp connections in any
> state. It was
> "C:/Program Files/PostgreSQL/8.4/bin/postgres.exe" "--forkcol" "1228"
>
> sysinternals' procexp.exe showes the following stack for this process:
> """
> ntkrnlpa.exe+0x8dace
> ntkrnlpa.exe+0x29a62
> ntkrnlpa.exe+0x33178
> hal.dll+0x6199
> hal.dll+0x63d9
> hal.dll+0x6577
> hal.dll+0x3902
> ntkrnlpa.exe+0x89721
> ntdll.dll!KiFastSystemCallRet
> mswsock.dll!ServiceMain+0x2949
> mswsock.dll!NSPStartup+0x1893
> WS2_32.dll!WSAUnhookBlockingHook+0x486
> WS2_32.dll!WSAUnhookBlockingHook+0x660
> WS2_32.dll!WSAEventSelect+0x2f
> postgres.exe!mdpostckpt+0x181b38
> postgres.exe!mdpostckpt+0x18bbdb
> """
This stack trace seems bogus. The stats collector should not be calling
mdpostckpt at all.
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