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Re: 8.0.0 gmake check fails if on disk, passes on ram disk....

Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org>

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From: Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org>
To: Jeff Ross <jross-dated-1106784195.b5de5a@openvistas.net>
Cc: pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org
Date: 2005-01-24T09:00:30Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs 
On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 05:03:08PM -0700, Jeff Ross wrote:

> If I put the source for 8.0.0 on disk (RAID 1) , configure, compile and 
> run gmake check, it fails with 33 errors, 30 of which are
> 
> ! psql: could not send startup packet: Broken pipe

Somebody else using OpenBSD reported a similar problem recently.
Here's part of that thread:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2005-01/msg00099.php

> If I put the same source code up on a ram disk, configure and compile it 
> the same way, all 96 tests pass.

Interesting.  Is this behavior consistent?  What's different 'twixt
the RAID disk and the RAM disk?

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Michael Fuhr
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