Re: continued segmentation fault - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Martijn van Oosterhout
Subject Re: continued segmentation fault
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Msg-id 20060928101900.GA10591@svana.org
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In response to continued segmentation fault  (Geoffrey <esoteric@3times25.net>)
Responses Re: continued segmentation fault  (Geoffrey <esoteric@3times25.net>)
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On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 02:57:09PM -0400, Geoffrey wrote:
> We continue to have segmentation faults of the /usr/bin/postgres process
>  as I mentioned in an earlier thread.  In all cases, the core file
> always indicates a segmentation fault, but the backtraces don't seem to
> consistently point to any particular problem.  Then again, when you go
> stomping around in memory where you don't belong, all bets are probably off.

99% of the time random segmentation faults are memory trouble. Have you
tried memtest86 on the machine in question?

Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog@svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
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