Thread: worker took too long to start; cancelled ( postgres 9.0.3)
Hi All - I am getting the following error while starting postgres 9.0.3. And when it happens I could not establish new connections and the following error messages keeps on coming up. Are you guys aware of this problem? Is it a bug? It has happened to me twice already. We are running this on red hat 5.6. "worker took too long to start; cancelled" Thanks. Dinesh
Hi All - I am reposting my earlier message. I saw someone had the same problem that I had, but I could not see the resolution. Please let me know if you have more info on this.
Here is the thread that talks about the same problem.
On 5/4/2011 2:55 PM, Dinesh Bhandary wrote:
Here is the thread that talks about the same problem.
Hello. >You haven't really provided us with much detail here, but it kind of >sounds like your system is overloaded. >...Robert Thank you for your kindness. Following modules are used mod_auth_pgsql-2.0.3_1 postgresql-client-8.3.9_1,1 postgresql-server-8.3.9_1 p5-DBD-Pg-2.16.0 php5-pdo_pgsql-5.2.12 What kind of information shall, I geve you in addtion to the list above? > Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:33:02 -0500 > Subject: Re: [BUGS] BUG #5284: Postgres CPU 100% and worker took too long to start; cancelled... Systemdown > From: robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com > To: azuneko(at)hotmail(dot)com > CC: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org > > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 12:43 AM, azuneko <azuneko(at)hotmail(dot)com> wrote: > > The following bug has been logged online: > > > > Bug reference: 5284 > > Logged by: azuneko > > Email address: azuneko(at)hotmail(dot)com > > PostgreSQL version: 8.3.3 > > Operating system: FreeBSD7.0.2 > > Description: Postgres CPU 100% and worker took too long to start; > > cancelled... Systemdown > > Details: > > > > Hello, > > > > I have the following 2 problems. > > It would be appreciated if you give me some information such as the way to > > avoid them.(Or if those problems are already known and fixed, could you > > please tell me what version I should apply.) > > > > 1,CPU utilization of postgres reaches 100%. > > > > I excuted "top" command and sometimes found that CPU utilization of postgres > > process reached 100% or almost 100%. (This is similar to the problem that > > was posted at > > http://archives.free.net.ph/message/20081104.074244.6e0dbcde.ja.html.) > > What might be the cause? > > > > 2. The following warning can be seen in the postgres log. > > WARNING: worker took too long to start; cancelled > > > > After this warning firstly appears in the log, the same warining message > > seems to be repeated. And if you leave this state as it is, the OS freezes > > before long. I guess this event happens because the daemons related to > > postgres (such as vacuum and autovacuum) won't release the shared memory and > > exclusively keep using it. Am I correct? > > > > Those 2 problems are confirmed to happen at least under the following > > conditions; > > Software > > -OS : FreeBSD 7.0.2 > > -Postgres version : 8.3.3 > > Hardware > > -Disk configuration : RAID5 (MegaCLI) > > -CPU : Xeon2.4 > > > > Thank you. > > You haven't really provided us with much detail here, but it kind of > sounds like your system is overloaded. > > ...Robert
On 5/4/2011 2:55 PM, Dinesh Bhandary wrote:
Hi All -
I am getting the following error while starting postgres 9.0.3. And when it happens I could not establish new connections and the following error messages keeps on coming up.
Are you guys aware of this problem? Is it a bug? It has happened to me twice already. We are running this on red hat 5.6.
"worker took too long to start; cancelled"
Thanks.
Dinesh