On 24/11/05 5:28 pm, "Tom Lane" <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Adam Witney <awitney@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> Does this help identifying what went wrong? > > At this point I think there's no question that your filesystem is > dropping blocks :-(. Might want to check for available kernel updates, > or contemplate changing to a different filesystem. Well I have been considering moving up to the 2.6.x kernels, this has made my other machines more reliable (they are not db machines though) Thanks again for all your help adam -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.