Re: Windows buildfarm failures

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>, Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Windows buildfarm failures
Date: 2007-01-19 11:59:18
Message-ID: 20070119115918.GB26080@alvh.no-ip.org
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Tom Lane wrote:

> I noticed today on my own machine several strange pauses while running
> the serial regression tests --- the machine didn't seem to be hitting
> the disk nor sucking lots of CPU, it just sat there for several seconds
> and then picked up again. I wonder if that's related. It sure seems it
> must be due to autovac being on now.

The only pauses I see are are in the "stats" and the "prepared_xacts"
tests. The latter is due to a test that uses statement_timeout to
detect a lock, and the stat test does a pg_sleep(2.0) call.

Do those explain what you are seeing?

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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