Re: pg 7.3.4 and linux box crash

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: pginfo <pginfo(at)t1(dot)unisoftbg(dot)com>
Cc: "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com>, "'pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org'" <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg 7.3.4 and linux box crash
Date: 2003-09-13 15:58:03
Message-ID: 5959.1063468683@sss.pgh.pa.us
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pginfo <pginfo(at)t1(dot)unisoftbg(dot)com> writes:
> scott.marlowe wrote:
>> WAIT. Do you mean you get a kernel panic? Or the box locks up tight? Or
>> the box reboots?

> It is crashing the linux box. Not rebooting, not kernel panic, but only stop
> to respond.On the console if I type reboot it will not to reboot and so on.
> But it crash only if I start intensive operations on pg.

In that case you unquestionably have hardware problems (or, less likely,
a broken kernel). Postgres runs as an unprivileged program; therefore
it is *not* capable of locking up the kernel unless the kernel is broken.

regards, tom lane

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