From: Jim C. Nasby <jnasby@pervasive.com>
To: Qingqing Zhou <zhouqq@cs.toronto.edu>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Unresolved Win32 bug reports
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 11:37:38 -0500
Message-ID: <20060424163738.GC38186@pervasive.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e2hd0p$1o3a$1@news.hub.org>
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<20060420172515.GE1984@svana.org>
<26379.1145556019@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 10:23:07AM +0800, Qingqing Zhou wrote:
>
> "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote
> > Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> writes:
> > > On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 12:17:07PM -0500, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> > >> Here's one to add to the list: running pgbench with a moderately heavy
> > >> load on an SMP box likes to trigger a state where the database (or
> > >> pgbench) just stops doing work (CPU usage drops to nothing, as does
> disk
> > >> activity).
> >
> > > Well, this sounds like a dead-lock, the obvious step would be to
> > > attached gdb to both and get a stack-trace...
> >
> > Yeah, I wonder if it's related to that apparent bug Qingqing saw in the
> > windows semaphore code? It's clearly windows-specific since no one's
> > ever reported any such thing on Unixen.
> >
>
> I also suspect the EAGAIN error reports are related to the semaphore code.
> So if possible, I suggest we patch the code and test it.
There a patched build available for testing? (I'd rather not have to
figure out how to get windows builds working, unless there's some kind
of instructions somewhere...)
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