On Jan 16, 2006, at 8:58 PM, Ujwal S. Setlur wrote:

> launched for a day or so. I started it manually and
> expected the slave to catch up eventually. It hasn't.
> It has been about 4 days. st_num_lag_events is about
> 64000 and growing.

It might just be worth your while to punt and restart the replication  
from scratch.  I had to do that once when a replica died and wasn't  
repaired over the weekend, causing an impossible to catch up situation.