Re: PostgreSQL database and other daemons crashing

From: Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Vick Khera <vivek(at)khera(dot)org>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL database and other daemons crashing
Date: 2010-05-20 21:06:38
Message-ID: AANLkTim8Zct6s11D7l0dTMhwbTHRS2Gb6afzwZPx0w-3@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Vick Khera <vivek(at)khera(dot)org> writes:
>> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
>>> I wonder if the oom killer is acting up.
>
>> that'd be my guess.  postfix *never* dies.  something external is
>> killing your processes.
>
> Either that or his hardware is failing, eg RAM dropping critical bits in
> the memory of several processes at the same time.

Defintely worth cranking up an afternoon of memtest86+ to see.

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