Hello list,

I have been using slony-1.0.5 for a simple one master one slave 
replication setup quite stably for some time with postgresql-7.4.7 on 
both sides.

A week ago, I move the database to another machine and made the 
necessary modification to slon configuration and the system runs 
smoothly for a while. However, when today I checked the master node, I 
find a bunch of slon processes instead of one, which is the number I 
usually find.

Is it normal for slon to start more than one processes for this setting? 
I don't think so, but what's the reason that suddenly so many processes 
come up? And more importantly, is my replication still running correctly 
now? Though sl_status indicates that there is no lag between the master 
and slave, I am still worring about the new phenomena.

I started slon on the master node with:

ws2:~# slon slontest "dbname=homelister host=localhost user=postgres" 
 >master.log 2>&1 &

And after that with 'ps -Af | grep slon', I got:

ws2:~# ps -Af | grep slon
root      6654  3121  0 12:56 pts/2    00:00:00 slon slontest 
dbname=homelister host=localhost user=postgres
root      6656  6654  0 12:56 pts/2    00:00:00 slon slontest 
dbname=homelister host=localhost user=postgres
root      6657  6656  0 12:56 pts/2    00:00:00 slon slontest 
dbname=homelister host=localhost user=postgres
root      6658  6656  0 12:56 pts/2    00:00:00 slon slontest 
dbname=homelister host=localhost user=postgres
root      6660  6656  0 12:56 pts/2    00:00:00 slon slontest 
dbname=homelister host=localhost user=postgres
root      6661  6656  0 12:56 pts/2    00:00:00 slon slontest 
dbname=homelister host=localhost user=postgres
root      6662  6656  0 12:56 pts/2    00:00:00 slon slontest 
dbname=homelister host=localhost user=postgres
root      6663  6656  0 12:56 pts/2    00:00:00 slon slontest 
dbname=homelister host=localhost user=postgres
root      6851  4307  0 13:20 pts/7    00:00:00 grep slon

How can I find out what is going on and whether any corrective measures 
are necessary?

Thanks for assistance!

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HONG Yuan

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