Re: Insane behaviour in 8.3.3
Achilleas Mantzios <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com>
From: Achilleas Mantzios <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Date: 2012-06-20T05:54:01Z
Lists: pgsql-sql
On Τετ 20 Ιουν 2012 07:08:09 Craig Ringer 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. > > ... and a lot more difficult :S > > 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. > That's right, we have written a whole framework for this, but there are always cases which escape our attention. > -- > Craig Ringer - Achilleas Mantzios IT DEPT