Re: hardware advice

From: Glyn Astill <glynastill(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)uk>
To: David Boreham <david_list(at)boreham(dot)org>, "pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: hardware advice
Date: 2012-10-03 11:56:44
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> From: David Boreham <david_list(at)boreham(dot)org>
> To: "pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
> Cc:
> Sent: Tuesday, 2 October 2012, 16:14
> Subject: Re: [PERFORM] hardware advice
>
> On 10/2/2012 2:20 AM, Glyn Astill wrote:
>> newer R910s recently all of a sudden went dead to the world; no prior
> symptoms
>> showing in our hardware and software monitoring, no errors in the os logs,
>> nothing in the dell drac logs.  After a hard reset it's back up as if
>> nothing happened, and it's an issue I'm none the wiser to the
> cause.  Not
>> good piece of mind.
> This could be an OS bug rather than a hardware problem.

Yeah actually I'm leaning towards this being a specific bug in the linux kernel.  Everything else I said still stands though.

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