On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Stephen Frost <sfrost@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> * Scott Marlowe (scott.marlowe@xxxxxxxxx) wrote: >>> Aug 9 13:13:21 engelberg kernel: [71242.735046] >>> >>> Does this look like a kernel bug or a pgsql bug to most people? >> >> It's certainly something kernel-related. It might be the OOM killer >> though.. You might want to disable that. Is the box running out of >> memory (run 'free')? > > Hehe, no. It's got 32 Gig of ram and is using 25G of that for kernel > cache. There are no entries in any log for oom killer that I can see. > > Hmmm. I'm running the latest Ubuntu LTS with 2.6.24-19-server kernel. > > Just ran the latest apt-get upgrade and only was missing an update to > pciutils. > > btw, here's the output of free: > > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 33080292 32983004 97288 0 87992 24882632 > -/+ buffers/cache: 8012380 25067912 > Swap: 7815580 144 7815436 > > Interesting thing, I've got a machine with the same configuration > sitting next to it that's not doing this. But it seems odd it could > be hardware induced. I take that back. This problem followed the RAID card from one machine to another.
