Re: pg 7.3.4 and linux box crash

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