Re: anole: assorted stability problems

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
>>>> Uh. I'm pretty sure there were some back when that patch went in. And
>>>> there definitely used to be a couple earlier. I guess itanium really is
>>>> dying (mixed bad: It's a horrible architecture, but more coverage would
>>>> still be good).

>>> Since that machine is run by EDB, maybe we could persuade them to set up
>>> a second critter on it that uses gcc. That would at least help narrow
>>> down whether it's a compiler-specific issue.

>> I pinged EDB about this several days ago, and they have now set up
>> buildfarm member gharial running on the same machine, using gcc.

> FWIW gharial does not show any problem whatsoever.

I'd hoped that commit 1b468a131bd260c9041484f78b8580c7f232d580 would
resolve this, but nope, anole is still getting occasional stuck spinlocks:
http://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=anole&dt=2015-06-28%2021%3A35%3A02

regards, tom lane