Re: why not kill -9 postmaster

From: Ray Stell <stellr(at)cns(dot)vt(dot)edu>
To: Shane Ambler <pgsql(at)007Marketing(dot)com>
Cc: Andreas Seltenreich <andreas+pg(at)gate450(dot)dyndns(dot)org>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: why not kill -9 postmaster
Date: 2006-10-20 14:07:55
Message-ID: 20061020140755.GA20901@cns.vt.edu
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On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 10:56:09PM +0930, Shane Ambler wrote:

Someone in the thread mentioned having to clean up shared mem. I've had
to do this often with oracle:

root# ipcs
------ Shared Memory Segments --------
key shmid owner perms bytes nattch status
0xe97c83ac 5505024 oracle 640 807403520 10
0x0052f649 3538945 postgresql600 10461184 2

------ Semaphore Arrays --------
key semid owner perms nsems
0xfb5e028c 25690112 oracle 640 154
0x0052f649 17629185 postgresq 600 17
0x0052f64a 17661954 postgresq 600 17
0x0052f64b 17694723 postgresq 600 17
0x0052f64c 17727492 postgresq 600 17
0x0052f64d 17760261 postgresq 600 17
0x0052f64e 17793030 postgresq 600 17
0x0052f64f 17825799 postgresq 600 17

------ Message Queues --------
key msqid owner perms used-bytes messages

$ ipcrm shm 2588672
resource(s) deleted

this remove example was not from the above shared mem report.

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