Re: Insane behaviour in 8.3.3 - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Craig Ringer
Subject Re: Insane behaviour in 8.3.3
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Msg-id 4FE14CA9.8090000@ringerc.id.au
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In response to Re: Insane behaviour in 8.3.3  (Achilleas Mantzios <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com>)
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On 06/19/2012 05:17 PM, Achilleas Mantzios wrote:
> We had another corruption incident on the very same machine, this time in the jboss subsystem (a "jar cvf" produced
corrupted.jar).
 
> IMHO this means faulty RAM/disk.
> If that is true, then i guess HW sanity checks are even more important than SW upgrades.

... and a lot more difficult :S

Log monitoring is often the most imporant part - monitoring for NMIs and 
other hardware notifications, checking the kernel log for odd issues or 
reports of unexpected segfaults from userspace programs, etc.

--
Craig Ringer


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