Re: server process (PID 27884) was terminated by signal 4 (SIGILL) - Mailing list pgsql-general

From mljv@planwerk6.de
Subject Re: server process (PID 27884) was terminated by signal 4 (SIGILL)
Date
Msg-id 200801041036.03008.mljv@planwerk6.de
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In response to Re: server process (PID 27884) was terminated by signal 4 (SIGILL)  (Steve Atkins <steve@blighty.com>)
List pgsql-general
Am Freitag, 4. Januar 2008 10:03 schrieb Steve Atkins:
> On Jan 4, 2008, at 12:44 AM, mljv@planwerk6.de wrote:
> > I just want to ask if there is something else
> > besideds
> > hardware failure which could force a signall 4 (ILL)?
>
> Software bugs can on rare occasions (by overwriting return stack data
> and heading off into the weeds, say), but there's no way they'd do
> that in
> multiple processes simultaneously
>
> It's conceivable it was just a transient problem ("a cosmic ray" -
> they really do
> happen occasionally) but it's much more likely you have bad hardware.
> Probably either RAM, disk or disk controller.

thanks a lot for clarifying this so quickly.

kind regards,
Janning

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