apparent scheduler problem
Andrew Dunstan
andrew@dunslane.net
Wed Mar 30 23:22:00 GMT 2005
Brian Ford wrote:
>On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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>>Recently after upgrading my installation of Cygwin on XP-Pro, I noticed
>>that PostgreSQL started failing one of its regression tests.
>>
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>[snip]
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>>The test is for the stats collector, and essentially it does some
>>work, waits a couple of seconds in a fairly brain dead busy/wait loop,
>>and then checks to see if the stats collector has done the work we
>>expect it to have done.
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>[snip]
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>>We are wondering if anything is known to have changed in Cygwin recently
>>that could account for this.
>>
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>Sounds to me like yet another case of
>http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-03/msg00730.html
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>
That's remarkably ugly :-) Two of us have confirmed that using the
latest snapshot DLL fixes the problem for Postgres. When might the fix
make it into a release?
cheers
andrew
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