Re: Serious Crash last Friday

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)atentus(dot)com>
To: Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com>
Cc: Henrik Steffen <steffen(at)city-map(dot)de>, pg <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Serious Crash last Friday
Date: 2002-06-21 00:51:00
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.44.0206202049290.6888-100000@cm-lcon-46-187.cm.vtr.net
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Scott Marlowe dijo:

> On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Henrik Steffen wrote:

> > I have now created a cronjob that will drop and recreate all indexes on a
> > daily basis.
> >
> > But shouldn't this be unnecessary ?

[...]

> A few questions. Have you done any really heavy testing on your server to
> make sure it has no problems with its hardware or anything? I've seen
> machines with memory errors or bad blocks on the hard drive slip into
> production and wreak havoc due to slow corruption of a database.

Also, if you are on ix86 hardware, try running memtest86 for a few hours
on it (www.teresaudio.com/memtest86).

--
Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]atentus.com>)
"La realidad se compone de muchos sueños, todos ellos diferentes,
pero en cierto aspecto, parecidos..." (Yo, hablando de sueños eróticos)

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