Re: anole: assorted stability problems - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: anole: assorted stability problems
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Msg-id 24791.1435534037@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: anole: assorted stability problems  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>)
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
>>>> Uh. I'm pretty sure there were some back when that patch went in. And
>>>> there definitely used to be a couple earlier. I guess itanium really is
>>>> dying (mixed bad: It's a horrible architecture, but more coverage would
>>>> still be good).

>>> Since that machine is run by EDB, maybe we could persuade them to set up
>>> a second critter on it that uses gcc.  That would at least help narrow
>>> down whether it's a compiler-specific issue.

>> I pinged EDB about this several days ago, and they have now set up
>> buildfarm member gharial running on the same machine, using gcc.

> FWIW gharial does not show any problem whatsoever.

I'd hoped that commit 1b468a131bd260c9041484f78b8580c7f232d580 would
resolve this, but nope, anole is still getting occasional stuck spinlocks:
http://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=anole&dt=2015-06-28%2021%3A35%3A02
        regards, tom lane



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