Re: hung backends stuck in spinlock heavy endless loop

From: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: hung backends stuck in spinlock heavy endless loop
Date: 2015-01-15 23:00:37
Message-ID: CAHyXU0y8pCQ_K+JgqLGp9hbN5HAAd5tu6vDnLBKSrgk9gcUzAg@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 4:03 PM, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 1:32 PM, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> Since it's possible the database is a loss, do you see any value in
>> bootstrappinng it again with checksums turned on? One point of note
>> is that this is a brand spanking new SSD, maybe we nee to rule out
>> hardware based corruption?
>
> hm! I bootstrapped a new database with checksums on, and lo,
>
> [cds2 18347 2015-01-15 15:58:29.955 CST 1779]WARNING: page
> verification failed, calculated checksum 28520 but expected 28541
> [cds2 18347 2015-01-15 15:58:29.955 CST 1779]CONTEXT: SQL statement
> "COPY lease_delete FROM
> '/tmp/C1188732_onesiteproperty.lease_delete.csv' CSV HEADER"

Running this test on another set of hardware to verify -- if this
turns out to be a false alarm which it may very well be, I can only
offer my apologies! I've never had a new drive fail like that, in
that manner. I'll burn the other hardware in overnight and report
back.

merlin

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