Re: More along the lines of "WEIRD CRASH?!?!"?

From: Murthy Kambhampaty <murthy(dot)kambhampaty(at)goeci(dot)com>
To: 'Tom Lane' <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Murthy Kambhampaty <murthy(dot)kambhampaty(at)goeci(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: More along the lines of "WEIRD CRASH?!?!"?
Date: 2003-03-18 19:19:17
Message-ID: 2D92FEBFD3BE1346A6C397223A8DD3FC09219E@THOR.goeci.com
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Tom Lane [mailto:tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us] writes:
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>Have you run memory and disk diagnostics recently on this machine?
>I think it's dropping data every so often.
>
Just the bios memory test at startup. I'll see what I can find on the disk
diagnostics (its a recent IDE disk, so I guess anything's possible there).
So much for testing LVM snapshots :-( (BTW, the workload I described is the
worst case for us; I trust it of more general interest in testing the
ability to take backups from snapshots under heavy load?)

Thanks again,
Murthy

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