Saturday our DB development server crashed (no big deal, it's not the production server), and checking out the logs in /var/log/messages, I get this: Mar 24 02:34:48 bugs kernel: [297840.580276] postgres D c10201fe 0 1471 1463 0x00000000 Mar 24 02:34:48 bugs kernel: [297840.580281] f723d960 00000086 c10201f2 c10201fe 00000000 00000000 c1091117 c144e2c0 Mar 24 02:34:48 bugs kernel: [297840.580289] f723db00 343b8000 c13e6ba4 c144e2c0 f723d960 c144e2c0 c144e2c0 c13e7284 Mar 24 02:34:48 bugs kernel: [297840.580297] 00000000 00000000 c13e6ba4 ffffffff 00000002 00000000 00000040 00000010 Mar 24 02:34:48 bugs kernel: [297840.580305] Call Trace: Mar 24 02:34:48 bugs kernel: [297840.580311] [<c10201f2>] ? __kunmap_atomic+0x5a/0x7b Mar 24 02:34:48 bugs kernel: [297840.580315] [<c10201fe>] ? __kunmap_atomic+0x66/0x7b Mar 24 02:34:48 bugs kernel: [297840.580319] [<c1091117>] ? get_page_from_freelist+0x31a/0x3ac Mar 24 02:34:48 bugs kernel: [297840.580324] [<c1044bfe>] ? prepare_to_wait_exclusive+0x15/0x53 Mar 24 02:34:48 bugs kernel: [297840.580328] [<c11e722d>] ? __lock_sock+0x53/0x71 Mar 24 02:34:48 bugs kernel: [297840.580332] [<c1044ade>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x29 Mar 24 02:34:48 bugs kernel: [297840.580336] [<c11e729a>] ? lock_sock_nested+0x1d/0x2d Mar 24 02:34:48 bugs kernel: [297840.580340] [<c12300ab>] ? udp_sendmsg+0x8d/0x594 Mar 24 02:34:48 bugs kernel: [297840.580345] [<c10d6dd5>] ? __find_get_block_slow+0x105/0x113 Mar 24 02:34:48 bugs kernel: [297840.580349] [<c10d71ad>] ? __find_get_block+0x14d/0x157 Mar 24 02:34:48 bugs kernel: [297840.580353] [<c12362f2>] ? inet_sendmsg+0x6c/0x73 Mar 24 02:34:48 bugs kernel: [297840.580357] [<c11e479f>] ? __sock_sendmsg+0x48/0x4e Mar 24 02:34:48 bugs kernel: [297840.580361] [<c11e4ba4>] ? sock_sendmsg+0x78/0x8f Mar 24 02:34:48 bugs kernel: [297840.580372] [<f84f4366>] ? ext3_mark_inode_dirty+0x29/0x30 [ext3] Mar 24 02:34:48 bugs kernel: [297840.580384] [<f84fae83>] ? __ext3_journal_stop+0x19/0x34 [ext3] Mar 24 02:34:48 bugs kernel: [297840.580391] [<c10d2a13>] ? __mark_inode_dirty+0x1d/0x15f Mar 24 02:34:48 bugs kernel: [297840.580395] [<c11e4fd9>] ? sockfd_lookup_light+0x13/0x3f Mar 24 02:34:48 bugs kernel: [297840.580399] [<c11e562a>] ? sys_sendto+0xed/0x121 Mar 24 02:34:48 bugs kernel: [297840.580403] [<c10938df>] ? release_pages+0x104/0x10c Mar 24 02:34:48 bugs kernel: [297840.580409] [<c10ac189>] ? free_pages_and_swap_cache+0x43/0x50 Mar 24 02:34:48 bugs kernel: [297840.580413] [<c11e5677>] ? sys_send+0x19/0x1d Mar 24 02:34:48 bugs kernel: [297840.580417] [<c11e655d>] ? sys_socketcall+0xee/0x1cb Mar 24 02:34:48 bugs kernel: [297840.580421] [<c10a6138>] ? sys_munmap+0x3a/0x40 Mar 24 02:34:48 bugs kernel: [297840.580425] [<c1002f1f>] ? sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x28 Server information: # uname -a Linux bugs 2.6.38-1-686 #1 SMP Wed Mar 16 17:37:47 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux # cat /etc/debian_version wheezy/sid # dpkg -l | grep postgresql ii postgresql-9.1 9.1.3-2 object-relational SQL database, version 9.1 server Nothing strange in postgresql.log. Last log is this (and there is was no DB activity at that hour): 2012-03-24 02:31:26 ART - : LOG: checkpoint starting: time Any ideas? Last year I had memory problems with this server (changed the faulty bank), I wouldn't want it to be happening again. -- Martín Marqués select 'martin.marques' || '@' || 'gmail.com' DBA, Programador, Administrador -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general