Re: BUG #18385: Assert("strategy_delta >= 0") in BgBufferSync() fails due to race condition

Hi Tender Wang,

13.03.2024 09:50, Tender Wang wrote:
> Hi Alexander,
>    I haven't been able to reproduce this issue on my machine(2 vCPU, 2GB memory).
>
>  Can you reproduce this issue reliably on your machine?

Thanks for your attention to this issue!

On my 12-core workstation, where pgbench shows approximately 2500 tps,
`pgbench -t 10000 -c 40` failed on iterations 1, 1, 3:
...
number of transactions actually processed: 398639/400000
number of failed transactions: 0 (0.000%)
latency average = 15.931 ms
initial connection time = 56.806 ms
tps = 2510.845701 (without initial connection time)
pgbench: error: Run was aborted; the above results are incomplete.
...

The server built with gcc,
CPPFLAGS="-O0" ./configure --enable-debug --enable-cassert ...

I have also intensified bgwriter as follows:
         rc = WaitLatch(MyLatch,
                        WL_LATCH_SET | WL_TIMEOUT | WL_EXIT_ON_PM_DEATH,
-                       BgWriterDelay /* ms */ , WAIT_EVENT_BGWRITER_MAIN);
+                       1 /* ms */ , WAIT_EVENT_BGWRITER_MAIN);

That is, I have the attached modification applied and the following in my
extra.config:
fsync = off
autovacuum = off
shared_buffers = '1MB'

Best regards,
Alexander