Re: [HACKERS] urgent: upgraded to 8.2, getting kernel panics

On 2/23/07, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> "Merlin Moncure" <mmoncure@gmail.com> writes:
> > On friday we upgraded a critical backend server to postgresql 8.2
> > running on fedora core 4.
>
> Umm ... why that particular choice of OS?  Red Hat dropped update
> support for FC4 some time ago, and AFAIK the Fedora Legacy project
> is not getting things done.  How old is the kernel you're using?
>
> > At this juncture we are going to downgrade the postmaster back to 8.1
> > and see if that fixes the panics.
>
> Even assuming that Postgres is related to the panics, I don't think you
> will find anyone maintaining that a kernel panic is not the kernel's
> problem.  If an application *is* able to provoke a kernel panic, the
> standard description of the problem would be "critical kernel security
> flaw".


I vaguely remember running into spinlock problems with FC4 and it wasn't due
to PostgreSQL. We didn't have database running on FC4.

If you are running a critical server you should switch to atleast CentOS.