Re: 8.0.0 gmake check fails if on disk, passes on ram disk....

Tom Lane wrote:
> Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org> writes:
>
>>On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 05:03:08PM -0700, Jeff Ross wrote:
>>
>>>If I put the same source code up on a ram disk, configure and compile it
>>>the same way, all 96 tests pass.
>
>
>>Interesting. Is this behavior consistent? What's different 'twixt
>>the RAID disk and the RAM disk?
>
>
> If the problem is at bottom a too low processes-per-user limit, as it
> was for Jean-Gerard, then maybe the RAM-disk case passes because of
> different timing details. This theory is a bit of a stretch though.
>
> In any case, we're being shown the wrong output. What I want to know is
> what appears in the postmaster log when these failures happen?
>
> regards, tom lane
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I did a make clean, make, and gmake check this morning. Fewer tests
failed (16 of the 96) on the raid1, and again no tests failed on the ram
disk.

Rather than post it in the e-mail, I've put the postmaster.log at

http://www.openvistas.net/postmaster.log

Thanks!