Re: Kernel panic error

Hi,

I'm using the Logical Volume Manager with the 2.4.1 (sorry for forgetting
to specify the exact version). What I am now suspecting is memory. Once I
downgraded to 128MB (from 384MB), this night the error did not show up.

What showed up was the "Error index_formtuple: data takes 21268 bytes: too
big". If anyone has any ideas on this, please share them.

Thanks for the interest
Robert

Denis Pugnere
<Denis(dot)Pugnere(at)ig To: Robert(dot)Farrugia(at)go(dot)com(dot)mt
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Subject: Re: Kernel panic error
16/02/2001 09:50

Yesterday, the 15 February 2001 at 10:12, Robert(dot)Farrugia(at)go(dot)com(dot)mt wrote :

| Hi,
|
| I have been using Postgres 7.0.3 for the last few weeks. I also use LVM
on
| the 2.4 kernel. I have very large tables (one of which is over 2GB).

are you using RAID ?
the 2.4 kernel seems to have some panics in specific cases.
try 2.4.1

|
| My problem is that lately (the last week), when doing maintenance
(normally
| at night using a cronjob), the follwoing error has been repeatly given:
|
| Incorrect number of segments after building list
| nr_segments is 8
| counted segments is 2
| Flag 1 0
| Segement 0xc5fa74a0, blocks 8, addr 0x4007ffff
| Kernel panic: Thats all folks. Too dangerous to continue.
|
| I have noticed yesterday that postgres gave the error below before the
| kernel panic. This error was given when vacuuming one of the smallest
| tables in the database.
| Error index_formtuple: data takes 21268 bytes: too big
|
| Anyone has any ideas what is happening ?
|
| Thanks
| Robert
|
|

Denis Pugnère
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