Re: minor windows & cygwin regression failures on stable - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: minor windows & cygwin regression failures on stable
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Msg-id 424A99DE.6080600@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: minor windows & cygwin regression failures on stable  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: minor windows & cygwin regression failures on stable
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Tom Lane wrote:

>"Andrew Dunstan" <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
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>
>>I'm not quite sure what question I should be asking of the Cygwin people.
>>Tom, Can you suggest something?
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>It sounds to me like the problem is that the backend executing the test
>script is in a tight loop (due to the half-baked implementation of sleep())
>and for some reason this prevents the stats processes from running ---
>for a far longer period than it by rights ought to.  Ask about recent
>changes in process scheduling policy.  (I suppose that actually it's
>Windows doing the scheduling, but what we want to know about is cygwin
>changes that might have affected Windows scheduling parameters.)
>  
>

The only answer so far received says:

Sounds to me like yet another case of
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-03/msg00730.html

cheers

andrew




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