Heikki Linnakangas <[email protected]> writes: > On 03/02/2026 18:33, Tom Lane wrote: >> Apparently, because its file system sucks.
> I bet it's the GCC compile farm's storage system that sucks. Certainly possible; I have no visibility into what's actually in there. But it seems to have about a dozen drives, which ought to give a decent amount of bandwidth ... > Buildfarm > animal 'douc' doesn't seem to have that problem: > https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_history.pl?nm=douc&br=REL_16_STABLE douc isn't running the TAP tests, so it's not directly comparable. But I don't find that a 25-minute BF cycle time without TAP tests is impressive. Anyway, I would be happy if someone would put forward evidence refuting my results, and even more happy if community members trying to work on this patch had access to AIX hardware that wasn't ridiculously slow. As things stand right now, I have zero motivation to continue working on it. regards, tom lane
