Hi, On 2023-04-24 10:53:35 +0200, Christoph Berg wrote: > I'm often seeing PG16 builds erroring out in the pgbench tests:
Interesting! > I don't think the disk is full since it's always hitting that same > spot, on some of the builds: Yea, the EINTR pretty clearly indicates that it's not really out-of-space. > https://pgdgbuild.dus.dg-i.net/job/postgresql-16-binaries-snapshot/833/ > > This is overlayfs with tmpfs (upper)/ext4 (lower). Manually running > that test works though, and the FS seems to support posix_fallocate: I guess it requires a bunch of memory (?) pressure for this to happen (triggering blocking during fallocate, opening the window for a signal to arrive), which likely only happens when running things concurrently. We obviously can add a retry loop to FileFallocate(), similar to what's already present e.g. in FileRead(). But I wonder if we shouldn't go a bit further, and do it for all the fd.c routines where it's remotely plausible EINTR could be returned? It's a bit silly to add EINTR retries one-by-one to the functions. The following are documented to potentially return EINTR, without fd.c having code to retry: - FileWriteback() / pg_flush_data() - FileSync() / pg_fsync() - FileFallocate() - FileTruncate() With the first two there's the added complication that it's not entirely obvious whether it'd be better to handle this in File* or pg_*. I'd argue the latter is a bit more sensible? Greetings, Andres Freund