Jim,
We have postgresql 6.5.3 (and before that 6.4) running on a low end pentium
intel architecture with BSDI3.0 for our devel environment. We experience
sponteous reboots less than once per month but we are convinced that this is
a hardware/OS issue nothing to do with Postgresql.
Just my $0.02
John Henderson
>
>i've got two systems, one a pentium 233 with adaptec 2940, scsi, using
vinum
>running a big postgresql database, and a new one, dual pentium 550, dual
adaptec
>29160, not using vinum, and another big postgresql database.
>
>the first system runs 3.4-stable and gets spontaneous reboots infrequently,
>and there are no messages (dmesg, console or syslog) indicating why it
rebooted.
>
>initially, i though it might be the vinum.
>
>the new system runs 4.0-stable, doesn't have vinum, and is spontaneously
>rebooting (several times in 48 hrs). again no messages indicting the
problem.
>
>postgres runs as a non-root user.
>
>on the second system, it has rebooted during heavy database processing, but
>mysterously, has rebooted again within 30-40 minutes, even though the
>database processing doesn't automatically restart (ie. the second reboot
>was not caused by heavy processing, as there was no processing happening).
>
>has anybody had similar issues? solutions? suggestions?
>
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