Re: Sending out a request for more buildfarm animals? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tomas Vondra
Subject Re: Sending out a request for more buildfarm animals?
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Msg-id 53694DB3.3080102@fuzzy.cz
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In response to Re: Sending out a request for more buildfarm animals?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Sending out a request for more buildfarm animals?  (Tomas Vondra <tv@fuzzy.cz>)
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On 6.5.2014 22:24, Tom Lane wrote:
> Tomas Vondra <tv@fuzzy.cz> writes:
>> I recall there was a call for more animals with CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS
>> some time ago, so I went and enabled that on all three animals. Let's
>> see how long that will take.
> 
>> I see there are more 'clobber' options in the code: CLOBBER_FREED_MEMORY
>> and CLOBBER_CACHE_RECURSIVELY. Would that be a good idea to enable these
>> as well?
> 
>> The time requirements will be much higher (especially for the
>> RECURSIVELY option), but running that once a week shouldn't be a big
>> deal - the machine is pretty much dedicated to the buildfarm.
> 
> I've never had the patience to run the regression tests to completion
> with CLOBBER_CACHE_RECURSIVELY at all, let alone do it on a regular 
> basis. (I wonder if there's some easy way to run it for just a few 
> regression tests...)

Now, that's a challenge ;-)

> 
> I think testing CLOBBER_FREED_MEMORY would be sensible though.

OK, I've enabled this for now.

Tomas



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