Re: kill -2

Are you running the megaraid 2 driver or the older 1.18 series?  Just
wondering.

On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Jord Tanner wrote:

>
> We are exploring the possibility of hardware problems, and have found
> some issues with the LSILogic Megaraid driver running in 64bit (this is
> a dual Opteron running Gentoo AMD64).
>
> Thanks for the feedback. I'm just covering all the bases.
>
> Jord Tanner
>
> On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 12:59, scott.marlowe wrote:
> > On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Jord Tanner wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Greetings,
> > >
> > > Does anyone know what the effect of sending an INT signal (kill -2) to
> > > each of:
> > >         - pg backend
> > >         - psql running an insert or select into
> > >         - Perl script with DBI connection to pg, running insert or
> > >         select into
> > >         - vacuumdb
> > >
> > > I'm getting some database corruption, and I'm wondering if the use of
> > > 'kill -2' could be the cause.
> >
> > No, kill -2 should not cause corruption.
> >
> > About once a month we get someone on the lists getting corruption.  almost
> > every time it's either a bad hard drive, memory, or system/cpu/mobo
> > causing it.  Have you tested your memory (memtest86) or drives (badblocks
> > on linux) to make sure they aren't the cause of your problem?  Just
> > because a server is new doesn't mean it's free of all flaws.
> >
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