On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 8:48 AM, Laszlo Nagy <gandalf@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: >> >> Huh, that's weird. We've fixed some bugs in the past that led the stats >> collector to consume excessive CPU --- but that was all pre-8.3. >> > > The server was rebooting intermittently, so we replaced the RAM (we got a > kernel page fault). But it was a week ago. The server is now stable. But is > it possible that somehow the file system became inconsistent, and that is > causing an infinite loop in the stats collector? Just guessing. Yes, you really can't trust any data that was written to the drives while the bad memory was in place. -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
