Re: Intermittent buildfarm failures on wrasse

From: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Intermittent buildfarm failures on wrasse
Date: 2022-04-15 03:06:16
Message-ID: CAH2-WzmdKQqbs_H7_Z5q2Ti1eX7_VX6_4jq2uRBaX8zoAd99RA@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 7:54 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> This is far from the first time that I've failed to reproduce a buildfarm
> result manually, even on the very machine hosting the animal. I would
> like to identify the cause(s) of that. One obvious theory is that the
> environment under a cron job is different --- but the only thing I know
> of that should be different is possibly nice'ing the job priorities.
> I did try a fair number of test cycles under "nice" in this case.
> Anybody have other ideas?

Well, Noah is running wrasse with 'fsync = off'. And did so in the
script as well.

That seems like it definitely could matter.

--
Peter Geoghegan

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