Re: Unresolved Win32 bug reports

From: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>
To: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Unresolved Win32 bug reports
Date: 2006-04-20 17:59:28
Message-ID: 20060420175928.GE49405@pervasive.com
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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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