From: | "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com> |
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To: | Qingqing Zhou <zhouqq(at)cs(dot)toronto(dot)edu> |
Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Unresolved Win32 bug reports |
Date: | 2006-04-24 16:37:38 |
Message-ID: | 20060424163738.GC38186@pervasive.com |
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On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 10:23:07AM +0800, Qingqing Zhou wrote:
>
> "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote
> > Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> writes:
> > > On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 12:17:07PM -0500, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> > >> Here's one to add to the list: running pgbench with a moderately heavy
> > >> load on an SMP box likes to trigger a state where the database (or
> > >> pgbench) just stops doing work (CPU usage drops to nothing, as does
> disk
> > >> activity).
> >
> > > Well, this sounds like a dead-lock, the obvious step would be to
> > > attached gdb to both and get a stack-trace...
> >
> > Yeah, I wonder if it's related to that apparent bug Qingqing saw in the
> > windows semaphore code? It's clearly windows-specific since no one's
> > ever reported any such thing on Unixen.
> >
>
> I also suspect the EAGAIN error reports are related to the semaphore code.
> So if possible, I suggest we patch the code and test it.
There a patched build available for testing? (I'd rather not have to
figure out how to get windows builds working, unless there's some kind
of instructions somewhere...)
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