Jon Lapham <lapham@jandr.org> writes:
> Is it important for you to know that at the time of the power outage, I
> *did* have 2 closed source kernel modules loaded, vmware's and NVidia's.
> (This is a development machine, not production...). Could one of
> these modules screwed up somehow and trampled on postgres's shared
> memory space? Anyway, just thought I'd mention it.
Well, that's potentially interesting. Do you have things configured to
load those automatically on boot?
> ------ Shared Memory Segments --------
> key shmid owner perms bytes nattch status
> 0x00000000 0 root 777 94208 0
> 0x6a6b6cbd 53411843 lapham 600 384 0
> 0x12ac1925 53444612 lapham 600 131072 0
> 0x000a1de2 41451525 lapham 600 1 0
> 0x6499077f 41484294 lapham 600 1 0
Anyone have any idea what the above entries are from? The root-owned,
world-writable one seems a bit odd in particular.
regards, tom lane
