----- Original Message -----
> From: David Boreham <david_list@boreham.org>
> To: "pgsql-performance@postgresql.org" <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
> Cc:
> Sent: Tuesday, 2 October 2012, 16:14
> Subject: Re: [PERFORM] hardware advice
>
> On 10/2/2012 2:20 AM, Glyn Astill wrote:
>> newer R910s recently all of a sudden went dead to the world; no prior
> symptoms
>> showing in our hardware and software monitoring, no errors in the os logs,
>> nothing in the dell drac logs. After a hard reset it's back up as if
>> nothing happened, and it's an issue I'm none the wiser to the
> cause. Not
>> good piece of mind.
> This could be an OS bug rather than a hardware problem.
Yeah actually I'm leaning towards this being a specific bug in the linux kernel. Everything else I said still stands
though.