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Re: understanding postgres issues/bottlenecks

Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>

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From: "Scott Marlowe" <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
To: "Luke Lonergan" <LLonergan@greenplum.com>
Cc: "david@lang.hm" <david@lang.hm>, "glynastill@yahoo.co.uk" <glynastill@yahoo.co.uk>, "rjpeace@earthlink.net" <rjpeace@earthlink.net>, "pgsql-performance@postgresql.org" <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Date: 2009-01-11T23:44:53Z
Lists: pgsql-performance 
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Luke Lonergan <LLonergan@greenplum.com> wrote:
> Not to mention the #1 cause of server faults in my experience: OS kernel bug causes a crash.  Battery backup doesn't help you much there.

I've been using pgsql since way back, in a lot of projects, and almost
almost of them on some flavor of linux, usually redhat.  I have had
zero kernel crashes on production dbs in that time.  I'd be interested
to know which historic kernels caused you the crashes.