Re: beta3 Solaris 7 (SPARC) port report [ Was: Looking for . . . ]

Frank Joerdens <frank@joerdens.de>

From: Frank Joerdens <frank@joerdens.de>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: Frank Joerdens <frank@joerdens.de>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2001-01-25T18:53:55Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 05:12:02PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Frank Joerdens writes:
> 
> > > I have experienced before that Unix sockets will cause random connection
> > > abortions on Solaris [ . . . ]
> >
> > Isn't that _really_ bad? Random connection abortions when going over
> > Unix sockets?? My app does _all_ the connecting over Unix sockets?!
> 
> That's bad, for sure.  Maybe you can check for odd conditions surrounding
> the /tmp directory, like is it on NFS, permission problems, mount options.

I just typed

$ mount

and I get

/tmp on swap read/write/setuid on Mon Jan 22 16:39:32 2001

for the /tmp directory, which looks distinctly odd to me. What kind of
device is swap (I know what swap is normally but I didn't know you could
mount stuff there . . . )??

Regards, Frank