Re: server closed the connection unexpectedly

On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 08:18:07AM -0300, Clodoaldo Pinto Neto wrote:

> Thank you for you reply. There is no sign in /var/log/messages of
> system crash or reboot when or before the problem happened. Also I
> always stop postmaster with pg_ctl stop and there was sometime that I
> last stoped it.

This is clearly a kernel problem.  Postgres does not have enough
privileges to trigger this kind of mess.

Or maybe you have bad hardware; RAM, most likely.  Have you run hardware
testing tools, like Memtest86+ ?

> Jul 17 05:34:07 s1 kernel:  <3>Debug: sleeping function called from
> invalid context at include/linux/rwsem.h:43

> Jul 17 05:34:07 s1 kernel:
> Jul 17 05:34:07 s1 kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at
> virtual address 00040000

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