Re: anole: assorted stability problems

Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2015-05-20 16:21:57 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > In HEAD only. Previous branches seem mostly clean, so there's something
> > going wrong. Spinlocks going wrong perhaps?
> >
> > http://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_stage_log.pl?nm=anole&dt=2015-05-20%2016%3A30%3A26&stg=check
> > ! PANIC: stuck spinlock (c00000000d6f4140) detected at lwlock.c:816
> > ! server closed the connection unexpectedly
> > ! This probably means the server terminated abnormally
> > ! before or while processing the request.
> > ! connection to server was lost
>
> Hm. Anole hasn't reported reliably for a while before these. It's quite
> possible that this is a ac++ portability problem around the
> atomics. There's lots of other IA64 animals not having problems, but
> they're not using ac++.

Lots? As far as I can tell, this is the only Itanium machine in the
buildfarm.

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