On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 8:48 AM, Laszlo Nagy <gandalf@shopzeus.com> wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>>
>> Huh, that's weird. We've fixed some bugs in the past that led the stats
>> collector to consume excessive CPU --- but that was all pre-8.3.
>>
>
> The server was rebooting intermittently, so we replaced the RAM (we got a
> kernel page fault). But it was a week ago. The server is now stable. But is
> it possible that somehow the file system became inconsistent, and that is
> causing an infinite loop in the stats collector? Just guessing.
Yes, you really can't trust any data that was written to the drives
while the bad memory was in place.