pginfo <pginfo@t1.unisoftbg.com> writes:
> scott.marlowe wrote:
>> WAIT. Do you mean you get a kernel panic? Or the box locks up tight? Or
>> the box reboots?
> It is crashing the linux box. Not rebooting, not kernel panic, but only stop
> to respond.On the console if I type reboot it will not to reboot and so on.
> But it crash only if I start intensive operations on pg.
In that case you unquestionably have hardware problems (or, less likely,
a broken kernel). Postgres runs as an unprivileged program; therefore
it is *not* capable of locking up the kernel unless the kernel is broken.
regards, tom lane