Received: from mta03.mail.mel.aone.net.au (mta03.mail.au.uu.net [203.2.192.83]) by postgresql.org (8.11.3/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f8N617e57067 for ; Sun, 23 Sep 2001 02:01:08 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from justin@postgresql.org) Received: from postgresql.org ([63.60.249.27]) by mta03.mail.mel.aone.net.au with ESMTP id <20010923060105.VKBF23951.mta03.mail.mel.aone.net.au@postgresql.org>; Sun, 23 Sep 2001 16:01:05 +1000 Message-ID: <3BAD7A6C.2FF8EA84@postgresql.org> Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 16:00:12 +1000 From: Justin Clift X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.8 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ian Lance Taylor CC: PostgreSQL Hackers Mailing List Subject: Re: Should we disable Solaris using Unix Domain Sockets in the References: <3BAD6EED.7CFB2F9D@postgresql.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archive-Number: 200109/600 X-Sequence-Number: 13479 Cool. :) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > > Justin Clift writes: > > > Did anyone ever figure out why Solaris boxes had those random failures > > during the regression tests? > > It should be better now that listen() is being called with a larger > number. The basic problem is that Solaris actually honors the > listen() backlog argument, and if more than that many Unix socket > clients attempt to connect simultaneously, some are rejected > immediately. > > Ian -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there." - Indira Gandhi