Re: What to do about a vacuum...

Yes, I checked it.  Tried three times.  It's not listening and it's got
>96% of one of the CPUs.  I'm about to try the 'terminate' button in
pgmonitor.  It ignored the 'Cancel button'.

Cheers!

Bob

On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 11:20, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Robert M. Meyer" <rmeyer@installs.com> writes:
> > Well, 'kill -INT pid' doesn't seem to have worked.  This is 7.2.1.  We
> > really don't want to whack the system but we need to get back online...
>
> You sure you sigint'ed the right process?  I can't see that VACUUM could
> take more than a few seconds to respond to a cancel --- it checks before
> moving onto each new page.
>
>             regards, tom lane
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