Hi folks, Currently I'm not sure about the reason for a error entry inside syslog. Maybe you can point me to right direction. During last night I received this log entries: > Feb 15 02:08:18 dbsrv kernel: [1158600.676036] INFO: task postgres:2358 blocked for > more than 120 seconds. > Feb 15 02:08:18 dbsrv kernel: [1158600.676102] "echo 0 > > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. > Feb 15 02:08:18 dbsrv kernel: [1158600.676201] postgres D ffff88000180fc40 0 > 2358 2279 0x00000000 > Feb 15 02:08:18 dbsrv kernel: [1158600.676206] ffffffff814891f0 0000000000000086 > 0000000000000000 000000010000000e > Feb 15 02:08:18 dbsrv kernel: [1158600.676210] ffff8800f2ba4520 ffff8800f39e1e18 > 000000000000f9e0 ffff8800f39e1fd8 > Feb 15 02:08:18 dbsrv kernel: [1158600.676213] 0000000000015780 0000000000015780 > ffff8800f3f446a0 ffff8800f3f44998 > Feb 15 02:08:18 dbsrv kernel: [1158600.676217] Call Trace: > Feb 15 02:08:18 dbsrv kernel: [1158600.676225] [<ffffffff810b4e8f>] ? > wait_on_page_writeback_range+0xce/0x11b > Feb 15 02:08:18 dbsrv kernel: [1158600.676238] [<ffffffffa0226e20>] ? > log_wait_commit+0xbf/0x112 [jbd] > Feb 15 02:08:18 dbsrv kernel: [1158600.676242] [<ffffffff8106502a>] ? > autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2e > Feb 15 02:08:18 dbsrv kernel: [1158600.676249] [<ffffffffa02373f8>] ? > ext3_sync_file+0x94/0xc8 [ext3] > Feb 15 02:08:18 dbsrv kernel: [1158600.676254] [<ffffffff8110c02c>] ? > vfs_fsync_range+0x73/0x9e > Feb 15 02:08:18 dbsrv kernel: [1158600.676257] [<ffffffff8110c0d6>] ? During this time it could be that autovacuum was running (its manually set to run after a data update has been successfuly done before.) Its a 8.4.10 running on Debian Stable. Now I'm wondering whether an issue with postgres itself or hardware or any other part of debian.... cheers, Frank -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin