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