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

Jeff Ross <jross@openvistas.net>

From: Jeff Ross <jross@openvistas.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org
Date: 2005-01-24T16:33:27Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs
Tom Lane wrote:
> Jeff Ross <jross@openvistas.net> writes:
> 
>>Rather than post it in the e-mail, I've put the postmaster.log at
>>	http://www.openvistas.net/postmaster.log
> 
> 
> I see multiple occurrences of
> 
> LOG:  could not fork new process for connection: Resource temporarily unavailable
> 
> so indeed your process limit is too low.  It's curious that OpenBSD
> seems more prone than other platforms to produce a "broken pipe" error
> instead of reporting the error message sent back by the postmaster ...
> but there is something of a race condition there, so we can't complain
> too much.
> 
> I have no idea why running the tests off ramdisk would make a difference
> in the probability of this failure, but it's academic.  Raise your
> process limit.
> 
> 			regards, tom lane
> 
> 

Thank you, Tom! That was indeed the problem.

Jeff Ross