Re: beta3 Solaris 7 (SPARC) port report [ Was: Looking for . . . ]

From: Patrick Welche <prlw1(at)newn(dot)cam(dot)ac(dot)uk>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Frank Joerdens <frank(at)joerdens(dot)de>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: beta3 Solaris 7 (SPARC) port report [ Was: Looking for . . . ]
Date: 2001-01-26 15:29:59
Message-ID: 20010126152959.C8925@quartz.newn.cam.ac.uk
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On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 10:13:29PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Frank Joerdens <frank(at)joerdens(dot)de> writes:
> > I just did that and ran make check 4 times. 3 times went completely
> > smoothly, once I had random fail. This is the same behaviour that I saw
> > when running make installcheck (76 successful most of the time,
> > sometimes you get 75 out of 76 with random being the one that fails).
>
> Er, you do realize that the random test is *supposed* to fail every so
> often? (Else it'd not be random...) See the pages on interpreting
> regression test results in the admin guide.
>
> What troubles me is the nonrepeatable failures you saw on other tests.
> As Peter says, if "make installcheck" (serial tests) is perfectly solid
> and "make check" (parallel tests) is not, that suggests some kind of
> interprocess locking problem. But we haven't heard about any such issue
> on Solaris.

Or simply running out of processes - check maxproc? (Deleted beginning of
this thread, so may have missed something)

Cheers,

Patrick

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