On 17 February 2014 14:42, Rob Goethals / SNP <Rob.Goethals@xxxxxx> wrote: > 2014-02-15 00:49:04 CET LOG: WAL writer process (PID 1127) was terminated by signal 6: Aborted Signal 6 is usually caused by hardware issues. Then again, you also say: >I mounted a directory on a NTFS network-disk (because of the available size and considering the > amount of OSM-data is pretty big). This is where I put all my database data, so also the pg_xlog. That will cause problems as well. SMBFS does not support all the necessary file flags, locks and such that the database needs to operate on those files in a safe way. That's probably worse than running with sciss... ehr... fsync=off Alban Hertroys. -- If you can't see the forest for the trees, Cut the trees and you'll see there is no forest. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general