Trevor Astrope <astrope@e-corp.net> writes:
> Could this be the linux kernel randomly killing processes under heavy
> load issue?
I concur with the other respondent who pointed out that the kernel uses
signal 9, not 11, when it wants to kill something. A check for marginal
hardware seems in order.
> Then after the machine is rebooted and while it is starting up, there is
> these messages:
> 2003-05-01 17:35:49 DEBUG: ReadRecord: unexpected pageaddr 21/37D94000 in log file 33, segment 63, offset 14237696
> 2003-05-01 17:35:49 DEBUG: redo done at 21/3FD92564
> I presume this is rerunning the WAL? Is the message serious...could there
> be database corruption or just lost transactions?
That message is expected if the old WAL happened to end exactly on a
page boundary --- which is somewhat unlikely, but certainly not
implausible. I don't think you lost anything.
regards, tom lane
