Re: stress test for parallel workers

From: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: stress test for parallel workers
Date: 2019-08-07 05:00:29
Message-ID: CA+hUKGJNS6gZ=w=+wxjqhmck-voJ7FBuejHnw8mQgAp2yt0A9g@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 4:29 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > I wondered if the build farm should try to report OOM kill -9 or other
> > signal activity affecting the postmaster.
>
> Yeah, I've been wondering whether pg_ctl could fork off a subprocess
> that would fork the postmaster, wait for the postmaster to exit, and then
> report the exit status. Where to report it *to* seems like the hard part,
> but maybe an answer that worked for the buildfarm would be enough for now.

Oh, right, you don't even need subreaper tricks (I was imagining we
had a double fork somewhere we don't).

Another question is whether the build farm should be setting the Linux
oom score adjust thing.

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Thomas Munro
https://enterprisedb.com

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