Re: Unresolved Win32 bug reports - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jim C. Nasby
Subject Re: Unresolved Win32 bug reports
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Msg-id 20060420175928.GE49405@pervasive.com
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In response to Re: Unresolved Win32 bug reports  (Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>)
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On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 07:25:15PM +0200, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> 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...

Any pointers on how to get that setup? IS gdb part of the mingw runtime?

BTW, this appears to be readily reproducable, so it might be a lot more
productive for one of the windows hackers to test this themselves...
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