Re: Socket problem using beta2 on Windows-XP

["Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>]

> > If it's two zombies per minute, then I bet it's the stat 
> collector and 
> > stat bufferer.  They are restarted by the postmaster if not 
> found to 
> > be running.
> 
> That would make some sense, because the stat processes need 
> to set up new sockets (for the pipe between them).  The 
> autovacuum theory didn't hold any water in my eyes because 
> autovacuum doesn't create any new sockets.
> 
> However, why two zombies?  That would mean that the 
> grandchild process started, which should mean that the pipe 
> was already created ...
> 
> Does Windows have any equivalent of strace whereby we could 
> watch what's happening during stats process launch?


First of all, I won't be able to dig into this any more until next week
- sorry about that. But others are always free to :-)

There is no strace equivalent builtin, but you can get an addon from
http://www.bindview.com/Services/RAZOR/Utilities/Windows/strace_readme.c
fm. Don't put it on a production box permanently, though, it tends to
cause BSODs in some cases.

//Magnus