ECC memory, RAID 10 w/ adaptec 3405 hardware controller. Period between crashes ranged from about 1min-5mins. Just switched to a new box so the problem is "gone". In the original email I meant ubuntu 6.06.
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 12:06 AM, John R Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Badr wrote: > >> Our pg keeps going into recovery mode after segfaulting. This is a >> compiled 8.3.3 on Ubuntu 6.04 with Slony. >> >> Some ideas from IRC: >> RhodiumToad: 1) probably least likely, something corrupt in the math libs; >> the fact that it's not reproducible makes this improbable >> RhodiumToad: 2) more likely: a register or memory stomp in a signal >> handler, which could be the result of an OS bug or a pg miscompile >> RhodiumToad: 3) slightly less likely: a memory stomp somewhere else in pg >> that happens to be clobbering something in the math library >> > > does this server have ECC memory? if not > > Pierce: 4) flakey memory > > > does this server have an 'enterprise' grade disk system (eg, SAS, SCSI, > Fiberchannel, with a decent qualilty RAID controller)? if its a desktop > ATA/SATA disk... > > Pierce: 5) flakey disk drive or channel > > >
