On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 12:00:22AM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> 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.
Interesting, any clue on how/when/where this happens?
-Otto
