pginfo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > scott.marlowe wrote: >> WAIT. Do you mean you get a kernel panic? Or the box locks up tight? Or >> the box reboots?
> It is crashing the linux box. Not rebooting, not kernel panic, but only stop > to respond.On the console if I type reboot it will not to reboot and so on. > But it crash only if I start intensive operations on pg. In that case you unquestionably have hardware problems (or, less likely, a broken kernel). Postgres runs as an unprivileged program; therefore it is *not* capable of locking up the kernel unless the kernel is broken. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings