<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">My intuition from seeing it say "FATAL" is that that's indicating "death of process," and that there's not much coming back from it.</span><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">This behaviour is pretty consistent with what happens with a Postgres postmaster; if the attempt to start up fails due to seeming already to have a postmaster, it doesn't retry, pg_ctl immediately gives up.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">By the way, is this possibly because of a zombied old connection that got disconnected due to firewall glitch or such? If so, you should probably see about lowering the TCP keepalive parameters both in the slon.conf file and in postgresql.conf</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">(On postgresql.conf, see tcp_keepalives_(idle|interval|count), and on slon.conf, see tcp_keepalive, tcp_keepalive_(idle|interval|count).)</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Christopher Browne <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cbbrowne@afilias.info" target="_blank">cbbrowne@afilias.info</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">My intuition from seeing it say "FATAL" is that that's indicating "death of process," and that there's not much coming back from it.<div>
<br></div><div>This behaviour is pretty consistent with what happens with a Postgres postmaster; if the attempt to start up fails due to seeming already to have a postmaster, it doesn't retry, pg_ctl immediately gives up.</div>
<div><br></div><div>By the way, is this possibly because of a zombied old connection that got disconnected due to firewall glitch or such? If so, you should probably see about lowering the TCP keepalive parameters both in the slon.conf file and in postgresql.conf</div>
<div><br></div><div>(On postgresql.conf, see tcp_keepalives_(idle|interval|count), and on slon.conf, see tcp_keepalive, tcp_keepalive_(idle|interval|count).)</div></div>
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