After reproducing these crashes and running tests long enough, we found
that these Postgres Crashes happen on linux 2.4.18 and not on linux
2.4.25. In all likelihood, this is a kernel (or driver) issue.

Could you kindly ensure this gets on my mail thread with subject "Postgres
Crashes".

Thanks
Prem.

On Wed, 5 May 2004, Tom Lane wrote:

> prem(at)mazunetworks(dot)com (Prem Gopalan) writes:
> > The dying process is postmaster. After these crashes the server is
> > missing from ps and no more new connections are possible. The backend
> > processes stay on till their connections close.
> 
> That behavior does sound like a postmaster crash --- but all the stack
> traces you show are clearly in backend code.  A backend crash ought not
> take out the postmaster.  So something fairly odd is going on here.
> 
> What if anything shows up in the postmaster's stderr log when this
> happens?
> 
> 			regards, tom lane
> 

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