Re: rogue process maxing cpu and unresponsive to signals

[Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>]

Jon Jensen <jon(at)jenseng(dot)com> writes:
> Yeah, if there's any information I can furnish that would help determine 
> where it's getting stuck, let me know. I'm not really sure how to gain 
> any visibility into what the process is doing at this point.

If my theory is right that it's stuck in a kernel call, then *maybe*
"strace -p pid" would show the suspended call.  Or maybe not.  Probably
worth trying if you haven't rebooted yet.

			regards, tom lane