Re: server closed the connection unexpectedly

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>
To: Clodoaldo Pinto Neto <clodoaldo_pinto(at)yahoo(dot)com(dot)br>
Cc: mike(at)thegodshalls(dot)com, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: server closed the connection unexpectedly
Date: 2004-07-18 17:32:21
Message-ID: 20040718173221.GE2372@dcc.uchile.cl
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On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 08:18:07AM -0300, Clodoaldo Pinto Neto wrote:

> Thank you for you reply. There is no sign in /var/log/messages of
> system crash or reboot when or before the problem happened. Also I
> always stop postmaster with pg_ctl stop and there was sometime that I
> last stoped it.

This is clearly a kernel problem. Postgres does not have enough
privileges to trigger this kind of mess.

Or maybe you have bad hardware; RAM, most likely. Have you run hardware
testing tools, like Memtest86+ ?

> Jul 17 05:34:07 s1 kernel: <3>Debug: sleeping function called from
> invalid context at include/linux/rwsem.h:43

> Jul 17 05:34:07 s1 kernel:
> Jul 17 05:34:07 s1 kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at
> virtual address 00040000

--
Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>)
"I dream about dreams about dreams", sang the nightingale
under the pale moon (Sandman)

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