Re: Slow regression tests on windows

On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 08:43:01AM -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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> Gevik Babakhani wrote:
> >I am trying to run regression tests on both windows and RH.
> >It looks like that the tests on windows run slower than linux
> >using two machines with same hardware config.
> >
> >Is this known?
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> We need far more information than this before we can say much sensibly,
> I think.. For example, what configure flags you are using, what
> compilers, etc.

In general, the regression tests are slower on windows, yes. It's because
there's a lot of processes spawned on both client and sderver side..

(Heck, in generall, *everything* in pg is slower on Windows than on Linux
with the same hardware config)

> From what I can see MinGW regression is somewhat slower than MSVC (and
> even than Cygwin) on my buildfarm VM that runs all three, even though
> the latter two are rate limited by MAX_CONNECTIONS.

Uh, you're saying MSVC and Cygwin somehow differ from MingW?

//Magnus