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Re: Insane behaviour in 8.3.3

Craig Ringer <ringerc@ringerc.id.au>

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From: Craig Ringer <ringerc@ringerc.id.au>
To: Achilleas Mantzios <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Date: 2012-06-20T04:08:09Z
Lists: pgsql-sql 
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.

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Craig Ringer