Re: continued segmentation fault

Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 02:57:09PM -0400, Geoffrey wrote:
>> We continue to have segmentation faults of the /usr/bin/postgres process
>>  as I mentioned in an earlier thread.  In all cases, the core file
>> always indicates a segmentation fault, but the backtraces don't seem to
>> consistently point to any particular problem.  Then again, when you go
>> stomping around in memory where you don't belong, all bets are probably off.
>
> 99% of the time random segmentation faults are memory trouble. Have you
> tried memtest86 on the machine in question?

No, but that's a thought.  We actually have two machines that are
clustered and we see the problem on both.  Once is carrying a heavier
load, thus it happens there more often.

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Until later, Geoffrey

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