On 2012-07-03, Otto Moerbeek <[email protected]> wrote: > Op 3 jul. 2012 om 17:54 heeft Jan Stary <[email protected]> het volgende > geschreven: > >> On Jul 03 10:32:29, Amit Kulkarni wrote: >>>> This is 5.1-beta/i386 on an ALIX about five years old, >>>> running as my home server. >>>> >>>> Recently, processes started to die for reasons unknown, as in >>>> >>>> pid 20260 (postgres): user write of 118784@0x28052000 at 159088 failed: > 14 >>>> pid 1872 (cron): user write of 118784@0x2b1e3000 at 30224 failed: 14 >>>> >>>> 14 is EFAULT as per sys/errno,h >>>> - what can be causing it? > > This message is printed when the function that tries to read memory and write > a core file fails. > This is very likely bad memory, causing segmentation faults and then a failure > to read the memory while writing a coredump.
I've seen this happen on enough different generally-reliable machines that I think there must be another frequent cause than faulty memory.
