Re: [Pgbuildfarm-members] guppie: 64MB RAM too small?

From: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: pgbuildfarm-members(at)pgfoundry(dot)org
Subject: Re: [Pgbuildfarm-members] guppie: 64MB RAM too small?
Date: 2006-03-21 12:25:41
Message-ID: 20060321122540.GV15742@pervasive.com
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On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 06:39:58AM -0600, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> There seems to be some confusion here. The MAX_CONNECTIONS setting for "make
> check" is a limit on the parallelism of the test. It's a gadget we put in a
> couple of years ago to allow cygwin to run "make check" as it couldn't run
> 20 concurrent connections. It is not connected to the server setting that is
> indeed set up by initdb. Buildfarm very deliberately always runs with the
> default settings that initdb sets up.

Ok, so the problem was just that the database ran out of connections
because initdb had to set max_connections really low. Thanks for
clarifying.

It's probably worth adding a note about this somewhere in
http://pgfoundry.org/docman/view.php/1000040/4/PGBuildFarm-HOWTO.txt
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