> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ericson Smith [mailto:eric@did-it.com]
> Sent: 18 July 2002 15:34
> To: Tom Lane
> Cc: Postgresql General Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Startup death!
>
>
> Seems I had this same problem a while back with 7.2.1
>
> We had I/O problems. Our RAID controller driver was acting
> up. Upgrading
> the i20 driver from Redhat finally and definitively solved
> the problem.
We're using redhat 7.3 with raid...
When was this that you got the i20 driver update. Did you have to say any
magic words? Is it part of any release lately? What version do you use
now?
For us, lsmod doesn't show any kind of i20
We have /dev/hdi20 which is owned by the dev-3.3-4 package, but it has i21,
i22 etc
The descriptions of all the packages installed don't mention i20
We have unused (no disks) Adaptec AIC7899 and then we actually use a
MegaRAID card.
> I would love to hear what your solution was, but am almost sure it is
> related to a disk i/o issue.
When it next happens we will strace -p and gdb the processes to see what
they are doing.
> For others in the list... What does it mean when the Postgresql
> processes are in startup mode? What is it supposed to be doing in that
> mode?
yeah!
Sam