[GENERAL] Various intermittent bugs/instability - how to debug?

2008-09-09 Thread Frederik Ramm
l's Quad-Core CPUs? What could I do to have a better chance of reproducing the error and ultimately identifying the component responsible? Is there some kind of "PostgresSQL load test", something like "cpuburn" for PostgreSQL? Have there been other reports o

Re: [GENERAL] Various intermittent bugs/instability - how to debug?

2008-09-09 Thread Frederik Ramm
RAID controller and Linux LVM; the new machine has 3x750 GB SATA plugged directly into the main board (no RAID, no LVM). So even the drives are quite different, and it's different drivers in both cases... Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm www.geofabrik.de Geof

Re: [GENERAL] Various intermittent bugs/instability - how to debug?

2008-09-25 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, just to give an update on this: Frederik Ramm wrote: Every other night, the process aborts with some strange error message, and never at the same position: [...] Turns out it *was* a RAM defect on one of the machines. memtest86 ran for a day and didn't detect it, but when I st