From: Amadeus Zilfinski <amadeus0@cox.net>
To: Ian Westmacott <ianw@intellivid.com>
Cc: Chris Travers <chris@travelamericas.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: database corruption
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 11:37:28 -0500
Message-ID: <1113669448.6483.4.camel@fileserver01.batrender> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000b01c54235$e34e8140$76d81e42@hsd1.ma.comcast.net>
References: <000b01c54235$e34e8140$76d81e42@hsd1.ma.comcast.net>
,snipped.
> - SuSE 9.1
> - 2.6.6 kernel
> - Postgres 7.4.2
> - 300 TPS against DB containing 5-50GB data, no more than a dozen
> concurrent connections.
> - fsync (or not) and fdatasync
I remember a problem that was fixed in the 2.6.9 kernel concerning XFS
corruption (shutdowns I think were the worst). Also introduced some JFS
stuff, but I don't run JFS so I didn't really pay much attention to
that.
Can you try a later (the latest?) vanilla kernel?
AmadeusZ.-
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