Re: [HACKERS] Re: Bug#41277: postgresql 6.5.1-3 + sparc (sun4u) == nasty nasty crashes

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Oliver Elphick" <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk>
Cc: Adam Di Carlo <adam(at)onshore(dot)com>, 41277(at)bugs(dot)debian(dot)org, pgsql-ports(at)postgreSQL(dot)org, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Re: Bug#41277: postgresql 6.5.1-3 + sparc (sun4u) == nasty nasty crashes
Date: 1999-08-01 15:27:37
Message-ID: 28493.933521257@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Oliver Elphick" <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk> writes:
>> Yes. On followup, I am getting intermittant hard crashes when running
>> regress.sh or doing any operation with postgresql. Obviously, this is
>> more on the level of a sparc64 kernel problem, even, than a purely
>> postgres problem -- after all, no user process should be able to take
>> out the system this way.

Yipes...

> Can postgresql developers tell from this what routine we are in when the
> crash occurs? I suppose that log output is buffered; where can we turn
> off buffering so that all possible output is saved to disk before the
> crash?

The log is not nearly detailed enough to tell what routine we're in,
even if there weren't the buffering problem. Also, given that this is
a kernel crash, I'm not sure I'd assume that even fsync() after every
line of output would ensure that the last line made it to disk.

What you really want is a truss or strace log of kernel calls, anyhow,
but there's still the problem of getting it out to disk before the
crash. Better find a kernel-debugging expert to ask for advice...

regards, tom lane

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