Re: stress test for parallel workers

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: mark(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: stress test for parallel workers
Date: 2019-10-11 18:04:41
Message-ID: ff2ef9aa-3af7-18e4-11bd-7481de2d4b47@2ndQuadrant.com
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On 10/11/19 11:45 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
>>> At least on F29 I have set /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern and it works.
> FWIW, I'm not excited about that as a permanent solution. It requires
> root privilege, and it affects the whole machine not only the buildfarm,
> and making it persist across reboots is even more invasive.

OK, but I'm not keen to have to tussle with coredumpctl. Right now our
logic says: for every core file in the data directory try to get a
backtrace. Use of systemd-coredump means that gets blown out of the
water, and we no longer even have a simple test to see if our program
caused a core dump.

cheers

andrew

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