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From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
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Subject: Re: hang with raid, postgresql
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On Sun, 30 May 2004, Don Bowman wrote:

>
> I have a system with 2x 2.8GHz XEON (P4), intel e7501 chipset,
> 4GB of ram, aac [adaptec 2200s] raid with 4 scsi
> disks. I have also tried asr (adaptec 2015).
> I have tried two different motherboards.
> The only application the machine runs is postgresql,
> with about ~30 databases, about ~250GB of data.
>
> I'm finding the machine locks up solid once a day
> or so (sometimes more, sometimes less, no pattern
> of time of day). I know its not a hardware issue, it
> is reliable with FreeBSD 4.7. I've run through memory
> test, disk test, etc.
>
> There appears to be a correlation between
> disk activity (postgresql vacuum) and the lockup,
> but i can't be sure.

Temperature?

What motherboard is it exactly?

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