Re: Further info : Very high load average but no cpu utilization ?

On May 12, 2002 01:46 am, Rajesh Kumar Mallah. wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I have observed that it is nearly impossible to
> get rid of postmaster or backends by any signal
> when it decides not to quit.
>
> Even the OS( Linux rh62)  refuses to reboot in such a situation.
> and my system admin had to power off the system ,
> then fsck .... and stuff.

Not even kill -9 worked?  I had that happen too but I thought it was a 
problem with AIX.  Kill -9 is supposed to kill any process.  It can't be 
caught.  Is it possible that PostgreSQL is doing something that makes it that 
unkillable?

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