From: | "CAJ CAJ" <pguser(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | "postgres general" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] urgent: upgraded to 8.2, getting kernel panics |
Date: | 2007-02-24 01:41:00 |
Message-ID: | 467669b30702231741h7bc84301p15109072ae163790@mail.gmail.com |
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On 2/23/07, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> "Merlin Moncure" <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > On friday we upgraded a critical backend server to postgresql 8.2
> > running on fedora core 4.
>
> Umm ... why that particular choice of OS? Red Hat dropped update
> support for FC4 some time ago, and AFAIK the Fedora Legacy project
> is not getting things done. How old is the kernel you're using?
>
> > At this juncture we are going to downgrade the postmaster back to 8.1
> > and see if that fixes the panics.
>
> Even assuming that Postgres is related to the panics, I don't think you
> will find anyone maintaining that a kernel panic is not the kernel's
> problem. If an application *is* able to provoke a kernel panic, the
> standard description of the problem would be "critical kernel security
> flaw".
I vaguely remember running into spinlock problems with FC4 and it wasn't due
to PostgreSQL. We didn't have database running on FC4.
If you are running a critical server you should switch to atleast CentOS.
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