Re: Autovacuum daemon terminated by signal 11

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Justin Pasher <justinp(at)newmediagateway(dot)com>
Cc: Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Autovacuum daemon terminated by signal 11
Date: 2009-01-15 18:43:29
Message-ID: 9507.1232045009@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Justin Pasher <justinp(at)newmediagateway(dot)com> writes:
> Richard Huxton wrote:
>> Segmentation fault - probably a bug or bad RAM.

> It's a relatively new machine, but that's obviously a possibility with
> any hardware. I haven't seen any other programs experiencing problems on
> the box, but the Postgres daemon is the one that is primarily utilized,
> so it's a little biased toward that.

I agree that the behavior seems a bit too specific to be a hardware
issue.

Can you get a stack trace from the crash? You might need to restart the
postmaster under "ulimit -c unlimited" to get a core dump from the
crashing autovacuum process.

regards, tom lane

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