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mallah.


On Friday 10 May 2002 05:13 pm, Rajesh Kumar Mallah. wrote:
> Hi
> my postmaster died just now,
>
> only a bunch of backends running
>
> [rmallah@server rmallah]$ psql -h 130.94.22.209  -U tradein
> tradein_clients psql: could not connect to server: Connection refused
>         Is the server running on host 130.94.22.209 and accepting
>         TCP/IP connections on port 5432?
> [rmallah@server rmallah]$
>
> output of ps
> ============
>
> [root@linux10320 root2]# ps auxwww| grep post
> postgres  5598  0.0  0.0 140412   4 ?        D    May07   2:31 postgres:
> stats buffer process
> postgres  5599  1.1  0.0 142396  20 ?        R    May07  48:48 postgres:
> stats collector process
> postgres 12262  0.0  0.0 238712   4 ?        D    May09   0:19 postgres:
> tradein tradein_clients 130.94.20.27 SELECT
> postgres 13039  0.0  0.0 139812   4 ?        D    May09   0:00 postgres:
> checkpoint subprocess
> postgres 29440  0.0  0.8 140664 9256 ?       S    14:35   0:01 postgres:
> tradein tradein_clients 203.196.129.235 idle
> postgres  6805  0.0  0.0 140196   4 ?        S    16:08   0:00 postgres:
> tradein tradein_clients 203.196.129.235 idle
> postgres 10154  0.0  0.0 140196   4 ?        S    16:38   0:00 postgres:
> tradein tradein_clients 203.196.129.235 idle
> postgres 10446  0.0  0.0 140164   4 ?        S    16:43   0:00 postgres:
> postgres tradein_clients 203.196.129.235 idle
> [root@linux10320 root2]#
>
> =============
> output of top
> =============
>   5:29pm  up 3 days, 24 min,  4 users,  load average: 5.68, 5.61, 5.70
> 54 processes: 52 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
> CPU states:  5.8% user, 44.3% system,  0.0% nice, 49.8% idle
> Mem:  1028484K av,  900084K used,  128400K free,       0K shrd,    2968K
> buff Swap:  971004K av,   99288K used,  871716K free
> 857220K cached
>
>   PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT  LIB %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
>  5599 postgres  17   0  2064   20    20 R       0 99.9  0.0  53:25
> postmaster 5598 postgres   9   0  1440    4     4 D       0  0.0  0.0
> 2:31 postmaster 12262 postgres   9   0 88564    4     4 D       0  0.0  0.0
>   0:19 postmaster 13039 postgres   9   0   656    4     4 D       0  0.0
> 0.0   0:00 postmaster 29440 postgres   9   0 10512 9256  9256 S       0
> 0.0  0.8   0:01 postmaster 6805 postgres   9   0   972    4     4 S       0
>  0.0  0.0   0:00 postmaster 10154 postgres   9   0   968    4     4 S
> 0  0.0  0.0   0:00 postmaster 10446 postgres   9   0   964    4     4 S
>   0  0.0  0.0   0:00 postmaster
> ==========================================================================
>
> On Friday 10 May 2002 04:18 pm, Jan Wieck wrote:
> > Rajesh Kumar Mallah. wrote:
> > > Hi Folks,
> > > please help ,
> > >
> > > therse seems to be too much lag between the access collector
> > > and system status. even the pids of backend does not seems to be
> > > matching.
> >
> >     The  delay is on average 250 milliseconds for a busy database
> >     (1/4 second).  The controlling definition is in
> >
> >         src/include/pgstat.h:
> >         #define PGSTAT_STAT_INTERVAL    500
> >
> >     This means, from the moment ANY statistic packet has  arrived
> >     in  the  collector,  it waits 500 milliseconds before writing
> >     out  all  information.   Thus,  the  above  250  milliseconds
> >     average is only true assuming a constant flow of packets.
> >
> >     And,  before  you  discover this one: The backends send their
> >     statistic collection information via UDP packets. In the case
> >     of heavy database load, some of these packets can get lost so
> >     that the statistics will not be  100%  accurate.  This  is  a
> >     wanted  feature  and  implemented  on purpose!  It is because
> >     counting  the  number  of  scans  isn't  considered  as  much
> >     important  as  responding  to  the client as fast as possible
> >     during the rushhour.
> >
> >
> > Jan
> >
> > > tradein_clients=# SELECT pg_stat_get_backend_pid(s.backendid) AS
> > > procpid, pg_stat_get_backend_activity(s.backendid) AS current_query
> > > FROM (SELECT pg_stat_get_backend_idset() AS backendid) s;
> > >
> > >  procpid |   current_query
> > > ---------+-------------------------------
> > >    27134 | <IDLE> in transaction
> > >    26958 | <IDLE> in transaction
> > >    26953 | <IDLE> in transaction
> > >    26960 | <IDLE> in transaction
> > >    27008 | <IDLE> in transaction
> > >    12839 | <IDLE>
> > >    26977 | <IDLE> in transaction
> > >    27012 | <IDLE> in transaction
> > >    31354 | <IDLE>
> > >    27014 | <IDLE> in transaction
> > >    27015 | <IDLE> in transaction
> > >    26978 | <IDLE> in transaction
> > >    26985 | <IDLE> in transaction
> > >    27135 | select count(*) from ( select distinct on (email_id)
> > > email_id,email,contact from  email_bank a  join (select email_id from
> > > email_export_category where category_id in (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,
> > > 10, 12, 14, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 1
> > >    12262 | SELECT source_id , cnt from (SELECT
> > > source_id,count(source_id) as cnt from email_source group by source_id
> > > ) subsel join sources
> > > using(source_id) order by source_id
> > >    27136 | <IDLE> in transaction
> > > (16 rows)
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > tradein_clients=#
> > > why does the above not match with the "top" output at
> > > the same time:
> > >
> > > =======================================================================
> > >== ===== 4:10pm  up 2 days, 23:06,  2 users,  load average: 6.21, 6.06,
> > > 5.60 69 processes: 66 sleeping, 3 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
> > > CPU states: 55.6% user,  2.0% system,  0.0% nice, 42.3% idle
> > > Mem:  1028484K av,  980320K used,   48164K free,       0K shrd,
> > > 3744K buff Swap:  971004K av,  102532K used,  868472K free
> > > 912724K cached
> > >
> > >   PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT  LIB %CPU %MEM   TIME
> > > COMMAND 5456 postgres  17   0 59456  57M 57156 R       0 99.1  5.7
> > > 3:12 postmaster 6601 postgres   9   0 79964  77M 78328 S       0  3.3
> > > 7.7 0:01 postmaster 6779 postgres   9   0 88412  86M 86752 S       0
> > > 1.9 8.5   0:00 postmaster 6703 postgres   9   0 81668  79M 80276 S
> > >  0 1.7  7.9   0:01 postmaster 6943 postgres   9   0 78732  76M 77520 S
> > > 0  1.7  7.6   0:01 postmaster 6940 postgres   9   0 44180  42M 42668 S
> > > 0  0.5  4.2   0:00 postmaster 6776 postgres   9   0  121M 121M  119M S
> > > 0  0.3 12.0   0:01 postmaster 5597 postgres   8   0   624  248 216 S
> > >    0  0.0  0.0   0:24 postmaster 5598 postgres   9   0  1440 4     4 D
> > >      0  0.0  0.0   2:31 postmaster 5599 postgres   9   0  2052 4     4
> > > S       0  0.0  0.0  28:05 postmaster 12262 postgres   9   0 88564    4
> > >     4 D       0  0.0  0.0   0:19 postmaster 13039 postgres   9 0   656
> > >   4     4 D       0  0.0  0.0   0:00 postmaster 29440 postgres 9   0
> > > 20928  19M 20332 S       0  0.0  1.9   0:01 postmaster 1652 postgres
> > > 9   0  3356 2324  2144 S       0  0.0  0.2   3:21 postmaster 2219
> > > postgres   9   0  2744 2120  2068 S       0  0.0  0.2   0:00 postmaster
> > > 6772 postgres   9   0  100M 100M 99.3M S       0  0.0  9.9 0:00
> > > postmaster 6805 postgres   9   0  4440 4168  3532 S       0  0.0 0.4
> > > 0:00 postmaster 6809 postgres   9   0 35280  34M 33948 S       0 0.0
> > > 3.4   0:00 postmaster 6846 postgres   9   0 98.9M  98M 99804 S 0  0.0
> > > 9.8   0:01 postmaster 6931 postgres   9   0 21744  20M 20428 S 0  0.0
> > > 2.0   0:02 postmaster 6934 postgres   9   0 19020  18M 17868 S 0  0.0
> > > 1.8   0:00 postmaster 6941 postgres   9   0 63280  61M 61756 S       0
> > > 0.0  6.1   0:01 postmaster
> > > =======================================================================
> > >== =======
> > >
> > >
> > > [root@linux10320 root2]# kill -INT 27135
> > > bash: kill: (27135) - No such pid
> > > [root@linux10320 root2]#
> > >
> > >
> > > and # kill -INT 12262   does not actually kills it ??
> > >
> > > regds
> > > mallah.
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Rajesh Kumar Mallah,
> > > Project Manager (Development)
> > > Infocom Network Limited, New Delhi
> > > phone: +91(11)6152172 (221) (L) ,9811255597 (M)
> > >
> > > Visit http://www.trade-india.com ,
> > > India's Leading B2B eMarketplace.
> > >
> > >
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Infocom Network Limited, New Delhi
phone: +91(11)6152172 (221) (L) ,9811255597 (M)

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