On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Brook Milligan wrote:
> You have to run the backend using gdb, and get a backtrace of the crash,
> or check the postmaster logs for any information.
>
> No core dump that I can find. But, the logs are reporting errors from
> semget in ipc.c. Specifically, it is complaining of not enough space,
> but I have no full filesystems. This stuff is part of the locking
> code isn't it? Did that get tweaked with the NetBSD/vax patches
> recently?
semget deals with shared memory, not file systems...under FreeBSD,
you do:
%ipcs
Message Queues:
T ID KEY MODE OWNER GROUP
Shared Memory:
T ID KEY MODE OWNER GROUP
m 131072 2063597841 --rw-rw-rw- scrappy staff
Semaphores:
T ID KEY MODE OWNER GROUP
To see what is being used. ipcrm to remove 'stale'
handles...sounds like your system isn't releasing when you kill of
postgres daemon...
Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org
