Re: understanding postgres issues/bottlenecks

From: "Scott Marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Luke Lonergan" <LLonergan(at)greenplum(dot)com>
Cc: "david(at)lang(dot)hm" <david(at)lang(dot)hm>, "glynastill(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)uk" <glynastill(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)uk>, "rjpeace(at)earthlink(dot)net" <rjpeace(at)earthlink(dot)net>, "pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: understanding postgres issues/bottlenecks
Date: 2009-01-11 23:44:53
Message-ID: dcc563d10901111544l3d039a22l7132064338016ad@mail.gmail.com
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On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Luke Lonergan <LLonergan(at)greenplum(dot)com> wrote:
> Not to mention the #1 cause of server faults in my experience: OS kernel bug causes a crash. Battery backup doesn't help you much there.

I've been using pgsql since way back, in a lot of projects, and almost
almost of them on some flavor of linux, usually redhat. I have had
zero kernel crashes on production dbs in that time. I'd be interested
to know which historic kernels caused you the crashes.

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