Re: RESOLVED: Explained by known hardware failures, or keep looking?

Thanks, all. Just an FYI to wrap up the thread.

>>> On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 3:25 PM, in message <4713(dot)1182198324(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>,
Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov> writes:
>> I'm suspicious that either the controller
>> didn't persist dirty pages in the June 14th failure
>
> That's what it looks like to me --- it's hard to tell if the hardware or
> the filesystem is at fault, but one way or another some pages that were
> supposedly securely down on disk were wiped to zeroes. You should
> probably review whether the hardware is correctly reporting write-complete.

The hardware tech found many problems with this box. I may just give it
a heavy update load and pull both plugs to see if it comes up clean now.

The following was done:

Replaced 2 failed drives
Controller firmware updated
SCSI micro code updated
Performed Yast Online updates
Connected second power supply

Our newer boxes have monitoring software which alerts us before a box
gets into this bad a state.

-Kevin