Re: Problems restarting after database crashed (signal

At Wed, 30 Jun 04, Unidentified Flying Banana Scott Marlowe, said:
> The combination of a Sig 11 failure and a process stuck in a D state
> makes me lean towards thinking it's bad hardware (CPU or memory).  Have
> you tested this machine?

It's possible that it's bad hardware, as the machine is a little long in
the tooth.  However, at the same time, it is a *very* well tested box.
It's been in production use for 4 years, and I have yet to experience a
significant hardware issue.

Up until this, prior to when I rebooted it a few hours ago over this
issue, it had been running for 110 days, with the database running
(under approximately the same load) for that whole time.

If it *is* a hardware problem, I would have expected it to show up
somewhat sooner than this.

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