Re: Platform Testing - Cygwin

From: Dave Page <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>
To: "'Jason Tishler'" <jason(at)tishler(dot)net>
Cc: "'pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org'" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "'pgsql-cygwin(at)postgresql(dot)org'" <pgsql-cygwin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Platform Testing - Cygwin
Date: 2001-12-13 13:30:05
Message-ID: FED2B709E3270E4B903EB0175A49BCB1047364@dogbert.vale-housing.co.uk
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Tishler [mailto:jason(at)tishler(dot)net]
> Sent: 13 December 2001 12:33
> To: Dave Page
> Cc: 'pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org'; 'pgsql-cygwin(at)postgresql(dot)org'
> Subject: Re: [CYGWIN] Platform Testing - Cygwin
>
>
> Dave,
>
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 10:18:57PM -0000, Dave Page wrote:
> > Parallel regression tests appear to fail almost randomly.
> The best I
> > got so far was 3 failures (out of 79 tests), the worst was
> about 15.
> > In particular the horology & misc tests always seems to
> fail, whilst
> > the others vary. With the exception of the misc test, all failures
> > appear to be due to failed connections eg:
> >
> > --- 1,3 ----
> > ! psql: could not connect to server: Connection refused
> > ! Is the server running on host localhost and accepting
> > ! TCP/IP connections on port 65432?
>
> The above is a known MS Winsock limitation and is documented
> in FAQ_MSWIN:
>
> 2. make check can generate spurious regression test
> failures due to
> overflowing the listen() backlog queue which causes connection
> refused errors.
>
> > System: Windows XP Professional, PIII 850MHz, 512Mb RAM, 32Gb disk
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Your system has a backlog limit of 5. Although a little
> dated, see the following for details:
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q127/1/44.asp
>
> Jason

Aww nuts. I should have thought of that. I'll try again on a Win2K server.

Slap on the wrist for not checking the docs - in my defence I'm recovering
from a rather nasty cold, and I am following on from someone else's reported
problem!

Thanks Jason,

Dave.

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