[ec2-beta] hung processes

Anna Hentzel wibge at gmail.com
Wed Feb 25 21:53:29 GMT 2009


I'm running django, lighttpd, and postgis/postgres.

The postgres database is on two EBS volumes, mounted raid 0.

I tried to cluster a large table last night, which I think might have
been when this problem started.

-Anna

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Eric Hammond <ehammond at thinksome.com> wrote:
> Anna:
>
> Can you provide more background on what you are doing on the instance?
>
> What kinds of software are you running?
>
> Are you using EBS (Elastic Block Store) or any other persistent storage
> mechanism?
>
> --
> Eric Hammond
> ehammond at thinksome.com
>
>
>
> Anna Hentzel wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I don't know if this is related to the ubuntu beta or not, but I'm
>> getting a lot of hung processes that can't be killed even with -9.
>>
>> These commands hang:
>> ps -ef
>> sudo lsof -i tcp:3033
>> strace -p 7679
>>
>> Also, once I started getting the hung processes, all attempts to
>> upload bundles are failing. Anyone else see anything like that?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Anna
>>
>




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