After reproducing these crashes and running tests long enough, we found that these Postgres Crashes happen on linux 2.4.18 and not on linux 2.4.25. In all likelihood, this is a kernel (or driver) issue.
Could you kindly ensure this gets on my mail thread with subject "Postgres Crashes". Thanks Prem. On Wed, 5 May 2004, Tom Lane wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Prem Gopalan) writes: > > The dying process is postmaster. After these crashes the server is > > missing from ps and no more new connections are possible. The backend > > processes stay on till their connections close. > > That behavior does sound like a postmaster crash --- but all the stack > traces you show are clearly in backend code. A backend crash ought not > take out the postmaster. So something fairly odd is going on here. > > What if anything shows up in the postmaster's stderr log when this > happens? > > regards, tom lane > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html