Re: [HACKERS] Intermittent "make check" failures on hyena

2006-08-15 Thread Zdenek Kotala
Andrew Dunstan napsal(a): Even at 32 this hardly seems to be a likely cause of the problem. I think the maximum parallelism of our tests is around 20. Anyway, lets's get the patch installed - I have a test regime set up that will reproduce the error moderately reliably within about a dozen or

Re: [HACKERS] Intermittent "make check" failures on hyena

2006-08-09 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Zdenek Kotala wrote: Josh Berkus wrote: Zdenek, However what happened? I think that following scenarios occurred. Postmaster listen only in one process and there are many clients run really parallel. T2000 server has 32 threads ( 8 core and each has 4 threads). These clients generate more TCP/

Re: [HACKERS] Intermittent "make check" failures on hyena

2006-08-09 Thread Zdenek Kotala
Josh Berkus wrote: Zdenek, However what happened? I think that following scenarios occurred. Postmaster listen only in one process and there are many clients run really parallel. T2000 server has 32 threads ( 8 core and each has 4 threads). These clients generate more TCP/IP request at one time

Re: [HACKERS] Intermittent "make check" failures on hyena

2006-08-08 Thread Zdenek Kotala
Josh Berkus napsal(a): Zdenek, However what happened? I think that following scenarios occurred. Postmaster listen only in one process and there are many clients run really parallel. T2000 server has 32 threads ( 8 core and each has 4 threads). These clients generate more TCP/IP request at one

Re: [HACKERS] Intermittent "make check" failures on hyena

2006-08-07 Thread Josh Berkus
Zdenek, > However what happened? I think that following scenarios occurred. > Postmaster listen only in one process and there are many clients run > really parallel. T2000 server has 32 threads ( 8 core and each has 4 > threads). These clients generate more TCP/IP request at one time, than > postm

Re: [HACKERS] Intermittent "make check" failures on hyena

2006-08-07 Thread Zdenek Kotala
Andrew Dunstan wrote: Tom Lane wrote: I see one occurrence in the 8.1 branch on hyena, but the failure probability seems to have jumped way up in HEAD since we put in the C-coded pg_regress. This lends weight to the idea that it's a timing-related issue, because pg_regress.c is presumably mu

Re: [HACKERS] Intermittent "make check" failures on hyena

2006-08-06 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Tom Lane wrote: I see one occurrence in the 8.1 branch on hyena, but the failure probability seems to have jumped way up in HEAD since we put in the C-coded pg_regress. This lends weight to the idea that it's a timing-related issue, because pg_regress.c is presumably much faster at forking of

Re: [HACKERS] Intermittent "make check" failures on hyena

2006-08-06 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> AFAIK it is not possible for Postgres itself to cause a "connection >> refused" failure --- that's a kernel-level errno. So what's going on >> here? The only idea that comes to mind is that this version of Solaris >> has some very lo

Re: [HACKERS] Intermittent "make check" failures on hyena

2006-08-06 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Tom Lane wrote: I'm noticing that buildfarm member hyena sometimes fails the parallel regression tests, for instance http://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=hyena&dt=2006-07-19%2009:20:00 The symptom is always that one of the tests fails entirely because psql couldn't connect: psql

[HACKERS] Intermittent "make check" failures on hyena

2006-08-06 Thread Tom Lane
I'm noticing that buildfarm member hyena sometimes fails the parallel regression tests, for instance http://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=hyena&dt=2006-07-19%2009:20:00 The symptom is always that one of the tests fails entirely because psql couldn't connect: psql: could not connect t