Re: Server crash due to SIGBUS(Bus Error) when trying to access the memory created using dsm_create().

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, amul sul <sul_amul(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)in>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Server crash due to SIGBUS(Bus Error) when trying to access the memory created using dsm_create().
Date: 2017-09-25 18:28:29
Message-ID: 488.1506364109@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 10:22 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> I think we don't really have a lot of choice. I propose applying this
>> as far back as 9.6 --- anyone think differently?

> +1. If applies to 9.5 and 9.4 without a lot of work, I think we
> should apply it there as well, in case there is out-of-core use of DSM
> (or, in 9.5, also of ParallelContext).

Hmm, so I tested this patch on my RHEL6 box (kernel 2.6.32) and it
immediately fell over with

2017-09-25 14:23:48.410 EDT [325] FATAL: could not resize shared memory segment "/PostgreSQL.1682054886" to 6928 bytes: Operation not supported

during startup. I wonder whether we need to round off the request.

regards, tom lane

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