Curious how you get to an OS kernel bug from these writes? Aren't we
missing the associated db reads in this trc data? Maybe there been
other data provided off the list? Would love to see it.
Thanks.
On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 05:59:31PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> "theman" <bitsandbytes88@hotmail.com> writes:
> > lseek(10, 0, SEEK_END) = 913072128
> > write(10, "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 8192) = 8192
> > lseek(10, 0, SEEK_END) = 913080320
> > write(10, "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 8192) = 8192
> > lseek(10, 0, SEEK_END) = 913088512
> > write(10, "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 8192) = 8192
> > lseek(10, 0, SEEK_END) = 913088512
> > write(10, "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 8192) = 8192
> > lseek(10, 0, SEEK_END) = 913096704
> > write(10, "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 8192) = 8192
>
> Boy, that looks like a smoking gun to me. We're dealing with a kernel
> bug.
>
> What's the platform here, including the exact kernel version? What
> filesystem are you storing the database on?
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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