From: Achilleas Mantzios <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com>
Organization: Dynacom Tankers Mgmt
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Insane behaviour in 8.3.3
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 08:54:01 +0300
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On =CE=A4=CE=B5=CF=84 20 =CE=99=CE=BF=CF=85=CE=BD 2012 07:08:09 Craig Ringe=
r wrote:
> On 06/19/2012 05:17 PM, Achilleas Mantzios wrote:
> > We had another corruption incident on the very same machine, this time =
in
> > the jboss subsystem (a "jar cvf" produced corrupted .jar). IMHO this
> > means faulty RAM/disk.
> > If that is true, then i guess HW sanity checks are even more important
> > than SW upgrades.
>=20
> ... and a lot more difficult :S
>=20
> Log monitoring is often the most imporant part - monitoring for NMIs and
> other hardware notifications, checking the kernel log for odd issues or
> reports of unexpected segfaults from userspace programs, etc.
>=20

That's right, we have written a whole framework for this, but there are alw=
ays cases
which escape our attention.

> --
> Craig Ringer

=2D
Achilleas Mantzios
IT DEPT