Thread: again, invalid page header in block ...
Hi list, I am working with 7.4.1 under Linux (SuSE 8.1) The server is a HP ProLiant DL 380-G3, 2x Intel Pentium4-Xeon, 2.8 GHz, 4 GB memory and a RAID 5 system with ca. 500 GB diskspace (xfs file system) When doing big transactions or changes (UPDATE several million rows in one step) on a database with ca. 50 GB diskspace and ca 15 million entries, PostGIS and lots of indexes, I get errors like ERROR: invalid page header in block 582024 of relation ... The error does not occur regularly. It seems to me that the error is related with heavy load and heavy I/O . CPU and memory does not seem the problem, according to my hotsanic tools. I have worked through http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2003-11/msg01288.php http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-admin/2003-09/msg00423.php http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=20030922162322.E12708%40quartz.newn.cam.ac.uk&rnum=8&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dpg_filedump%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26selm%3D20030922162322.E12708%2540quartz.newn.cam.ac.uk%26rnum%3D8 which suggest to me that I have run into hardware trouble (disk? memory?!) But I supposed that my server was not SO bad for this database application... How to fix that? (I mean - not to repair the tables or pages but to get a stable one? ) Trying another sotrage hardware?! -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr.-Ing. Hubert Fröhlich Bezirksfinanzdirektion München Alexandrastr. 3, D-80538 München, GERMANY Tel. :+49 (0)89 / 2190 - 2980 Fax :+49 (0)89 / 2190 - 2997 hubert dot froehlich at bvv dot bayern dot de