Re: pg 7.3.4 and linux box crash - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: pg 7.3.4 and linux box crash
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Msg-id 5959.1063468683@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: pg 7.3.4 and linux box crash  (pginfo <pginfo@t1.unisoftbg.com>)
Responses Re: pg 7.3.4 and linux box crash  ("Matt Clark" <matt@ymogen.net>)
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pginfo <pginfo@t1.unisoftbg.com> writes:
> scott.marlowe wrote:
>> WAIT.  Do you mean you get a kernel panic?  Or the box locks up tight?  Or
>> the box reboots?

> It is crashing the linux box. Not rebooting, not kernel panic, but only stop
> to respond.On the console if I type reboot it will not to reboot and so on.
> But it crash only if I start intensive operations on pg.

In that case you unquestionably have hardware problems (or, less likely,
a broken kernel).  Postgres runs as an unprivileged program; therefore
it is *not* capable of locking up the kernel unless the kernel is broken.

            regards, tom lane

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