matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au> writes: > digging into the regression.diffs, i can see that: > - reltime failed
becauseit just had: > ! psql: Backend startup failed > The postmaster log file should have more info, but a
firstthought is > that you ran up against process or swap-space limitations. The parallel > check has
fifty-oddprocesses going at its peak, which is more than the > default per-user process limit on many Unixen. >
hmm,maxproc=80 on this system currently and i wasn't really doing anything > else. it has 256MB ram and 280MB swap
(unused). exactly what am i looking > for in the postmaster.log file? it is 65kb long... Look for messages about
"forkfailed". They should give a kernel error message too.
after running `unlimit' (tcsh) before `make check', the only failures i have
are the horology (expected) and the inherit sorted failures, on NetBSD/sparc64.
i also believe the `Bad address' errors were caused when the test was run in
an NFS mounted directory.
.mrg.
