On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 02:09:35PM -0700, Robert Creager wrote: > On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 14:09:58 -0600 > "Jim C. Nasby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 08:46:27PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > > On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Jim C. Nasby wrote: > > > For all the talk about "couldn't it be part of regression", I haven't > > > seen > > > anyone submit a patch that would test for it ... since I believe both you > > > and Tom have both stated that "for things like race conditions, I don't > > > know that you can create reproducable cases", can you submit a patch for > > > how you propose this should be added to the regression tests? > > > > I have an idea, but it might be better if Robert could produce a test > > case since it would cover both a context storm issue as well as this > > race condition. > > > > Actually, I have a test case. I just sent it out to Tom a couple of hours > ago. > The quick and dirty is that it shows the problem after running for about 20 > minutes on my Xenon system with 8.1.0... I cannot get it to fail on my AMD > system with a much higher load... > > I can send it to others who are interested. The e-mail with dump, module and > script is just over 1Mb.
Just to clarify, did it show the assert failure, the context switch storm, or both? Yes, I'd like to take a look at this if you could send it on to me. Is there any simple way to populate the database? I doubt people would be keen on having a 1MB dump in CVS... -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
