Re: postmaster crash - another server process exited abnormally - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Richard Huxton
Subject Re: postmaster crash - another server process exited abnormally
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Msg-id 427B7498.8040304@archonet.com
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In response to postmaster crash - another server process exited abnormally  ("Michael Korotun" <michael@softasap.net>)
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Michael Korotun wrote:
>
> I have Postgres 8.0.1 on Linux FC3 and everything goes fine, except that a
> one time per week approximately I am getting server crash with a message in
> log:

> LOG:  server process (PID 5252) was terminated by signal 9

Sounds like something is sending SIGKILL (kill -9) to your backend
processes. If you're not doing it, I don't suppose you could be running
out of RAM could you? The Linux out-of-memory (oom) process killer has
traditionally been fairly useless at choosing "safe" processes to kill.

--
   Richard Huxton
   Archonet Ltd

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