Thread: Re: [lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu: Third call for platform testing]
matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au> writes:
> digging into the regression.diffs, i can see that:
> - reltime failed because it just had:
> ! psql: Backend startup failed
> The postmaster log file should have more info, but a first thought is
> that you ran up against process or swap-space limitations. The parallel
> check has fifty-odd processes 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 "fork failed". They should give a kernel error
message too.
regards, tom lane
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.
matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au> writes: > i also believe the `Bad address' errors were caused when the test > was run in an NFS mounted directory. You may have something, there. My test run on the VAX was over NFS. I set up NetBSD on a VAX specifically to test PostgreSQL 7.1, but I didn't have any disk available that it could use, so I went for NFS. -tih -- The basic difference is this: hackers build things, crackers break them.