Re: Unresolved Win32 bug reports

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
Cc: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>, 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 18:00:19
Message-ID: 26379.1145556019@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> writes:
> 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).

> Well, this sounds like a dead-lock, the obvious step would be to
> attached gdb to both and get a stack-trace...

Yeah, I wonder if it's related to that apparent bug Qingqing saw in the
windows semaphore code? It's clearly windows-specific since no one's
ever reported any such thing on Unixen.

regards, tom lane

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