On 08/12/2016 08:10 AM, Ioana Danes wrote:
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> On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 10:47 AM, Francisco Olarte
> <folarte@peoplecall.com <mailto:folarte@peoplecall.com>> wrote:
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> CCing to the list...
>
> Thanks
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 4:10 PM, Ioana Danes <ioanadanes@gmail.com
> <mailto:ioanadanes@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >> given 318220 and 318216 are just a bit away ( 4db08/4db0c ), and it
> >> repeats sporadically, have you ruled out ( by having page
> checksums or
> >> other mechanism ) a potential disk read/write error ?
> >>
> >>
> >> > Also the index is correct on db3 as the record in case (with
> drawid =
> >> > 318216) is retrieved if I filter by drawid = 318220
> >>
> >> Specially if this happens, you may have some slightly bad disks/ram/
> >> leading to this kind of problems.
> >>
> >
> > Could be. I also had some issues with an rsync between db3 and
> drdb a week
> > ago that did not complete for bigger files (> 200MB) and gave me some
> > corruption messages. Then the system was revbooted and everything
> seemed
> > fine but apparently it is not.
> > I am planning to drop & create the table from a good backup and if
> that does
> > not fix the issue then I will rebuild the server.
>
> I would check whatever logs you can ( syslog or eventlog, smart log,
> etc.. ) hunting for disk errors ( sometimes they are reported ). This
> kind of problems, with programs as tested as postgres and rsync, tend
> to indicate controller/RAM/disk going bad ( in your case it could be
> caused by a single bit getting flipped in a sector for the data
> portion of the table, and not being propagated either because it
> happened after your sync of drdb or because it was synced from the WAL
> and not the table, or because it was read from the disk cache ).
>
> I agree, unfortunately I did not find any clues about corruption or any
> anomalies in the logs.
> I will work tonight to rebuild that table and see where I go from there.
The db3 database is on a different machine from all the other databases
you set up, correct?
>
> Thanks,
> ioana
>
> Francisco Olarte.
>
>
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