Re: Problems restarting after database crashed (signal 11). - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Greg Stark
Subject Re: Problems restarting after database crashed (signal 11).
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Msg-id 873c49w6ae.fsf@stark.xeocode.com
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In response to Re: Problems restarting after database crashed (signal 11).  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:

> Christopher Cashell <topher-pgsql@zyp.org> writes:
> > 28424 postgres  18   0 16804 3044  15m D  0.0  1.6   0:06.72 postmaster
>
> > Note that it does have a process status of 'D', or uninterruptible
> > sleep.  That would explain the unkillable part, though I'm curious how
> > it ended up there.

Is there an NFS server involved? If an NFS server disappears any process
waiting on I/O for it enters disk-wait indefinitely until it reappears.

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greg

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