Russell Smith wrote:
> Craig A. James wrote:
>> Questions:
>> 1. Any idea what happened and how I can avoid this? It's a *big*
>> problem.
>> 2. Why didn't the database recover? Why are there two processes
>> that couldn't be killed?
I'm guessing it didn't recover *because* there were two processes that
couldn't be killed. Responsibility for that falls to the
operating-system. I've seen it most often with faulty drivers or
hardware that's being communicated with/written to. However, see below.
>> 3. Where did the "signal 9" come from? (Nobody but me ever logs
>> in to the server machine.)
>>
> I would guess it's the linux OOM if you are running linux.
If not, it means the server is hacked or haunted. Something outside PG
issued a kill -9 and the OOM killer is the prime suspect I'd say.
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Richard Huxton
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