Re: Re: It happened again: Server hung up solid

On Mon, 8 May 2000, The Hermit Hacker wrote:

>
> *sigh*
>
> > gcore 87721
> gcore: /proc/87721/file: No such file or directory

Accroding to TFM:

The process identifier, pid, must be given on the command line. If no
executable image is specified, gcore will use ``/proc/<pid>/file''.

So you might try:

gcore /path_to_postmaster/postmaster 87721

or something close to that.

Vince.

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>
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> On Mon, 8 May 2000, Michael Robinson wrote:
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> > >Try killing the postmaster itself in such a way as to produce a coredump
> > >(kill -ABORT ought to do) and get a backtrace from that.
> >
> > The "gcore" command (on most modern unices) will generate a core dump of a
> > running process without killing the process. It seems that would be more
> > useful in this circumstance.
> >
> > -Michael Robinson
> >
>
> Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy
> Systems Administrator @ hub.org
> primary: scrappy(at)hub(dot)org secondary: scrappy(at){freebsd|postgresql}.org
>
>

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