Re: Corrupted Data ?

From: Francisco Olarte <folarte(at)peoplecall(dot)com>
To: Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>
Cc: Ioana Danes <ioanadanes(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Corrupted Data ?
Date: 2016-08-13 08:49:56
Message-ID: CA+bJJbyVijaC1C_-fSqpjc-GU_f=kc5ei_dg5SiqDkT3Vnvthw@mail.gmail.com
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Hi Adrian:

On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 9:01 PM, Adrian Klaver
<adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com> wrote:
> "Specially if this happens, you may have some slightly bad disks/ram/
> leading to this kind of problems."
>
> Trying to reconcile that with all the physical machine 1 VMs sharing the
> same RAM and physical disk, but the error only occurring on db3.
>
> Is the VM hosting db3 setup different from the VMs 1 & 2?

They probably share the disk, bus, ram and disk controllers, but they
surely do not share the disk SECTORS. "Weak" ( nearly failing ) tracks
can give this kind of problems ( although the disk CRC should catch
all odd number of bit errors , but with VMs in the mix who knows where
the messages could end up ).

Francisco Olarte.

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