gs wrote:
The following bug has been logged online:

Bug reference:      4772
Logged by:          gs
Email address:      g...@freenet.am
PostgreSQL version: 8.3.1
Operating system:   Fedora 9
Description:        The server is hanging
Details:
Hello, the Linux server is going down, we don't know what is the problem -
the kernel or PostgreSQL, here is some part from /var/log/messages, more
detailed file can be downloaded from here:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/7q4zwc


Log:

Apr 22 12:28:05 icon kernel: VFS: brelse: Trying to free free buffer
Apr 22 12:28:05 icon kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------
Apr 22 12:28:05 icon kernel: WARNING: at fs/buffer.c:1215
__brelse+0x28/0x2b() (Not tainted)
Apr 22 12:28:05 icon kernel: Modules linked in: sunrpc ipv6 ipt_REJECT
....

that looks like a kernel fault to me, nothing Postgres is doing should cause the kernel to try to free an already free IO buffer. this could be triggered by a hardware problem, or a buggy kernel or kernel driver.

now, 8.3.1 is a early version in the 8.3 series (they are up to 8.3.7). before persuing too many other avenues, I think I'd temporarily disable postgres (boot up in safe mode, and disable the postgres service via `chkconfig` or whatever), and make sure your fedora 9 is updated (yum update), and update postgres to 8.3.7.




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