On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 12:17:07PM -0500, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> Here's one to add to the list: running pgbench with a moderately heavy
> load on an SMP box likes to trigger a state where the database (or
> pgbench) just stops doing work (CPU usage drops to nothing, as does disk
> activity). I've been able to repro this on 2 Intel boxes (one a 2 way,
> one a 4 way), and a dual Opteron, all running the latest windows binary.
> A 50 connection test running 1000 transactions is pretty much ensured to
> fail.
Well, this sounds like a dead-lock, the obvious step would be to
attached gdb to both and get a stack-trace...
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