On 6/23/25 23:25, Christoph Berg wrote:
> Re: Tomas Vondra
>> True. If it fails on first call, but succeeds on the other, then the
>> problem is likely somewhere else. But also on the second call we won't
>> do the memory touching. Can you try setting firstNumaTouch=false, so
>> that we do this on every call?
>
> firstNumaTouch=false, it still fails on the first call.
>
> I assume you meant actually keeping firstNumaTouch=true - but it still
> fails on the first call.
>
No, I meant firstNumaTouch=false, so that the touching happens on every
call. I was wondering if that makes all calls fail.
> The memory touching is done for the first call in each backend, but
> reconnecting doesn't reset it, I have to restart PG.
>
I don't follow. Why wouldn't reconnecting reset it?
>> At the beginning you mentioned this is happening on i386, armel and
>> armhf - are all those in qemu? I've tried on my rpi5 (with 32-bit user
>> space), and there everything seems to work fine. But that's aarch64
>> kernel, just the user space if 32-bit.
>
> I'm testing on i386 in a chroot on a amd64 kernel. (same for x32)
> armel and armhf are also 32-bit chroots on a arm64 host.
>
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=postgresql-18&suite=experimental
>
> Maybe this is a kernel bug.
>
Or maybe the 32-bit chroot on 64-bit host matters and confuses some
calculation.
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Tomas Vondra
