Re: Postgresql 9.0.13 core dump

Kevin,

Thanks for the response. I will look into it based on your suggestion.

-Laurent

On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 8:29 PM, Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com> wrote:

> Laurentius Purba <lpurba(at)sproutloud(dot)com> wrote:
>
> > I did google this error message, "...signal 10: Bus error.." and
> > found the issue with hardware problem, memory.
> >
> > Do you have any other pointers or clues that I can look into?
>
> Well, the very first thing I would do is to make sure that the OS
> and jail software was up-to-date, in case it is a bug which has
> been fixed. I might take a look at BIOS and firmware levels, too.
> Tomas makes a good point about the XML library tending to be
> problematic, so I would make sure that was current.
>
> If I still had the problem after that, I would try to distil it
> down to the smallest reproducible test case, and see whether it ran
> OK outside the jail.
>
> Another approach would be to run hardware tests, although that
> tends to require a longer maintenance window than the other things.
>
> Basically, there are a lot of layers the problem could be in, and
> not a lot of reason to suspect any particular layer, so you need to
> start ruling things out. In a situation like that I tend to start
> with the fastest, easiest layers to check first.
>
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