Re: [HACKERS] Platform Testing - Cygwin

From: Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>
To: Jason Tishler <jason(at)tishler(dot)net>
Cc: Dave Page <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>, "'pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org'" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "'pgsql-cygwin(at)postgresql(dot)org'" <pgsql-cygwin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Platform Testing - Cygwin
Date: 2001-12-14 18:24:27
Message-ID: 3C1A43DB.90805@tm.ee
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Jason Tishler wrote:

>Dave,
>
>On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 10:18:57PM -0000, Dave Page wrote:
>
>>Parallel regression tests appear to fail almost randomly. The best I got so
>>far was 3 failures (out of 79 tests), the worst was about 15. In particular
>>the horology & misc tests always seems to fail, whilst the others vary. With
>>the exception of the misc test, all failures appear to be due to failed
>>connections eg:
>>
>>--- 1,3 ----
>>! psql: could not connect to server: Connection refused
>>! Is the server running on host localhost and accepting
>>! TCP/IP connections on port 65432?
>>
>
>The above is a known MS Winsock limitation and is documented in FAQ_MSWIN:
>
> 2. make check can generate spurious regression test failures due to
> overflowing the listen() backlog queue which causes connection
> refused errors.
>
Could this not be "fixed" in client libs, by having a retry count/timeout.

I guess that having libpq (or any other client) retry the initial
connection would solve
most of these short queue problems.

>>System: Windows XP Professional, PIII 850MHz, 512Mb RAM, 32Gb disk
>>
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>Your system has a backlog limit of 5. Although a little dated, see the
>following for details:
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q127/1/44.asp
>
>Jason
>
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