On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Vick Khera <vivek@khera.org> writes:
>> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:
>>> I wonder if the oom killer is acting up.
>
>> that'd be my guess. postfix *never* dies. something external is
>> killing your processes.
>
> Either that or his hardware is failing, eg RAM dropping critical bits in
> the memory of several processes at the same time.
Defintely worth cranking up an afternoon of memtest86+ to see.