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

Tom Lane wrote:
> Jeff Ross <jross(at)openvistas(dot)net> writes:
>
>>Rather than post it in the e-mail, I've put the postmaster.log at
>> http://www.openvistas.net/postmaster.log
>
>
> I see multiple occurrences of
>
> LOG: could not fork new process for connection: Resource temporarily unavailable
>
> so indeed your process limit is too low. It's curious that OpenBSD
> seems more prone than other platforms to produce a "broken pipe" error
> instead of reporting the error message sent back by the postmaster ...
> but there is something of a race condition there, so we can't complain
> too much.
>
> I have no idea why running the tests off ramdisk would make a difference
> in the probability of this failure, but it's academic. Raise your
> process limit.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
>

Thank you, Tom! That was indeed the problem.

Jeff Ross