Dear Tom,
>
>
> "Robert E. Bruccoleri" <bruc@stone.congenomics.com> writes:
> > Besides a no optimization compilation of 7.4.3, what else
> > would you recommend to explore this problem further? Thanks. --Bob
>
> I really haven't the foggiest where to look :-( I don't actually
> believe that it's a spinlock problem; that would explain pages getting
> substituted for other pages, in whole or in part, but you showed at
> least one example where a page was just overwritten with garbage.
> That looks more like a memory-stomp problem (again, assuming that it's
> software) and so could be anywhere.
Does the memory pattern in the garbage page look familiar?
>
> Are you using any off-the-beaten-track code (contrib modules,
> non-btree indexes, non-mainstream data types)? That stuff is less
> well debugged than the mainstream ...
No, it's all standard stuff (text, integers, floats, etc.).
Thanks. --Bob
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