Re: Buildfarm server is failing to collect some reports

On 2026-08-11 Tu 10:56 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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> On 2026-08-11 Tu 9:35 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I wondered why my animals were showing wildly inconsistent
>> last-report times on different branches.  The answer seems
>> to be that some of the reports are getting dropped by the
>> server.  Here's log output from the most recent case on
>> longfin:
>>
>> -----
>> Query for: stage=OK&animal=longfin&ts=1786479121
>> Target:
>> https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgstatus.pl/.256h.ce7e2d2fd90b3c35beec0b9d5727c77ccedbf714a77be116b2a281dcee2cd296
>> Status Line: 500 Server closed connection without sending any data back
>> Content:
>> Server closed connection without sending any data back at
>> /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.34/Net/HTTP/Methods.pm line 391.
>>
>> Web txn failed with status: 1
>> -----
>>
>> The other reports look similar.
>>
>> It looks like this has happened at least ten times today,
>> across all four of my animals.  I'm not seeing indications
>> that it happened before today.
>>
>>
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> The only errors I see on the buildfarm logs are from a single host
> which is attempting to upload logs that are too large. I assume that's
> not yours, will confirm if you let me have the address privately.
>
> Otherwise, it's apparently an infrastructure problem.
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Confirmed the errors I saw in the weblog are not from Tom's machines.

cheers

andrew

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