Joe,
Thanks - I will try to check into this - however, we have done some tuning on the memory over the last 2 years and gotten it such that it is seldom if every having to dip into its swap too substantially -- according to "top", we remain under 1% swap usage during most times. Generally speaking, I run 3-5 of these large PHP processes simultaneously with no issue, however, when I issue even a "median" function call, after several calls (no consistent pattern that I can discern), the backend crashes.
If this were the OOM killer - any way I would diagnose it?
regards,
r.b.
-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Conway [mailto:mail@joeconway.com]
Sent: Fri 9/23/2011 3:23 PM
To: Burgholzer, Robert (DEQ)
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] diagnosing a db crash - server exit code 2
On 09/23/2011 12:02 PM, Burgholzer, Robert (DEQ) wrote:
> I am trying to get my head around why I keep getting crashes to my PG
> 8.3.7 database on CentOS - Linux version 2.6.18-164.el5. There are 3
> slightly different (I think) circumstances leading to a crash of the
> database, all related in some way to long running PHP scripts with
> intensive activity on PG connections.
> #1 - execution of an R call via pLR (sometimes this may crash it all by
> itself)
> #2 - execution of a postGIS query (possible)
> #3 - random occurences, all related to the same long running PHP scripts
>
> I have read that perhaps hardware and/or system settings may cause
> this. I believe the system is running i9 processors, that may be set
> into some sort of virtual multi-threading mode. Thanks for any insight
> you all can give in tracking this down.
Are you maybe getting bitten by the OOM killer?
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/kernel-resources.html#AEN22246
Joe
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