On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Adam Bruss <abruss@awrcorp.com> wrote:
> The handles persist through restarting the postgresql service and restarting the IIS server. The handles are
accumulatingon the System process. I think the handles are created when the web service is accessed but that would mean
theIIS worker processes would have responsibility and they don't seem to. Recycling the worker processes in IIS does
nothing.And the worker processes have their own process w3wp.exe which never accumulate handles. It's probably not a
postgresqlthing or other people would be seeing it.
>
Use "process explorer" from sysinternals / microsoft (google for it)
to see what these handles are for (pipes, files, events, mutants,
desktops, winstations (ok, probably not those), etc...