On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Tom Lane wrote:
What we are left with turns out to be multiple occurrences of the first pathology on exactly three buildfarm members: ferret Cygwin kudu Solaris 9, x86 dragonfly Solaris 9, x86 So what to make of this? Dunno, but it is clearly a very platform-specific behavior. Anyone see a connection between Cygwin and Solaris?
One thing to note about kudu and dragonfly is that they are running under vmware. This, combined with cygwin's reputation, makes me suspect that the connection is that they are both struggling under load. Although canary (NetBSD 1.6 x86) is setup in the same fashion and has shown no such failures.
I'm also in the process of moving, so I put this machine in a box last night and it won't be up and running for a week or two. I do have very similar copies of the OS image running on other machines if you'd like me to test something specific.
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