Re: Strange failures on chipmunk

From: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>
To: Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Strange failures on chipmunk
Date: 2022-06-30 08:21:18
Message-ID: bfc4b76d-eb8b-79ff-9767-1a24b6ce4719@iki.fi
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On 30/06/2022 09:31, Noah Misch wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 10:07:18AM +1200, Thomas Munro wrote:
>> Then there's this one-off, that smells like WAL corruption:
>>
>> https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=chipmunk&dt=2022-06-13%2015%3A12%3A44
>>
>> 2022-06-13 23:02:06.988 EEST [30121:5] LOG: incorrect resource
>> manager data checksum in record at 0/79B4FE0
>>
>> Hmmm. I suppose it's remotely possible that Linux/armv6l ext4 suffers
>> from concurrency bugs like Linux/sparc.
>
> Running sparc64-ext4-zeros.c from
> https://marc.info/?l=linux-sparc&m=164539269632667&w=2 could confirm that
> possibility.

I ran sparc64-ext4-zeros on chipmunk for 10 minutes, and it didn't print
anything.

It's possible that the SD card on chipmunk is simply wearing out and
flipping bits. I can try to replace it. Anyone have suggestions on a
test program I could run on the SD card, after replacing it, to verify
if it was indeed worn out?

- Heikki

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