"Jim C. Nasby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 03:09:30PM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote: >> I have had an idea for some time that is actually much simpler -- just >> launch several backends at once to do different things, and randomly >> send SIGSTOP and SIGCONT to each. If they keep doing whatever they are >> doing in infinite loops, and you leave it enough time, it's very likely >> that you'll get problems if the concurrent locking (or whatever) is not >> right.
> This is probably worth doing as well, since it would simulate what an > IO-bound system would look like. While that might be useful for testing, it'd absolutely suck for debugging, because of the difficulty of reproducing a problem :-( regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings