Re: Buildfarm server is failing to collect some reports

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.
>
>

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.

cheers

andrew

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