Re: "error with invalid page header" while vacuuming pgbench data

From: Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: John Rouillard <rouilj(at)renesys(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: "error with invalid page header" while vacuuming pgbench data
Date: 2011-05-25 22:18:28
Message-ID: BANLkTikaAPZow+b2YZKOKH5KxuGYWvFi9w@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 4:07 PM, John Rouillard <rouilj(at)renesys(dot)com> wrote:
> Well I am also managing to panic the kernel on some runs as well.  So
> my guess is this is not only a postgres bug (if it's a postgres issue
> at all).
>
> As gregg mentioned in another followup ext4 under centos 5.x may be an
> issue. I'll drop back to ext3 and see if I can replicate the
> corruption or crashes one I rule out some potential hardware issues.

Also do the standard memtest86+ run to ensure your memory isn't bad.
Also do a simple dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null to make sure the drive
has no errors. It might be the drives. Look in your logs again to
make sure.

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