Re: PostgreSQL database and other daemons crashing - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Scott Marlowe
Subject Re: PostgreSQL database and other daemons crashing
Date
Msg-id AANLkTim8Zct6s11D7l0dTMhwbTHRS2Gb6afzwZPx0w-3@mail.gmail.com
Whole thread Raw
In response to Re: PostgreSQL database and other daemons crashing  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
List pgsql-general
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Vick Khera <vivek@khera.org> writes:
>> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:
>>> I wonder if the oom killer is acting up.
>
>> that'd be my guess.  postfix *never* dies.  something external is
>> killing your processes.
>
> Either that or his hardware is failing, eg RAM dropping critical bits in
> the memory of several processes at the same time.

Defintely worth cranking up an afternoon of memtest86+ to see.

pgsql-general by date:

Previous
From: Tom Lane
Date:
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL database and other daemons crashing
Next
From: Matt Bartolome
Date:
Subject: Re: postgres startup failure