Re: urgent: upgraded to 8.2, getting kernel panics - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Magnus Hagander
Subject Re: urgent: upgraded to 8.2, getting kernel panics
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Msg-id 20070301135010.GB4202@svr2.hagander.net
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In response to Re: urgent: upgraded to 8.2, getting kernel panics  ("Merlin Moncure" <mmoncure@gmail.com>)
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On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 08:32:57AM -0500, Merlin Moncure wrote:
>
> Following an emergency downgrade back to 8.1, the kernel panics went
> away.  Note that I don't believe for a second that the database was
> the root cause here...research suggest that the problem is due to some
> type of bug in the scsi driver.  Exactly why 8.2 brings this out is a
> mystery...working on getting an enterprise kernel on the server.

Probably it's pushing some part of the I/O system harder than 8.1, thus
exposing the bug faster.

//Magnus

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