Re: Strange database corruption with PostgreSQL 7.4.x o - Mailing list pgsql-general

On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Matthias.Pitzl@izb.de wrote:

> Any ideas how i could check the hardware?

1. memtest86 or memtest86+ at least 8 hours

2. CPU Burn-in
http://users.bigpond.net.au/cpuburn/ at least 8 hours

3. badblocks -s -v -t random /dev/sd%
WARNING: this will destroy your data!

4. smartctl -a /dev/sd%
Does not have to work. Sometimes needs some hacking to make it work.

Dave "KernelSlacker" Jones wrote a very good article about hardware
problems:
http://people.redhat.com/davej/hardware-problems.txt

Regards
Tometzky
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