Re: Difficulty with make check

Lasher, Glenn wrote:

> On the QA zone or Production servers, however the same command (adjusted for the number of processors) fails at 'make
check'thus: 
>
> ---8<-cut----------------------------------------------------------------------
> ./pg_regress --temp-install=./tmp_check --top-builddir=../../.. --srcdir=/usr/us
> ers/postgres/build/postgresql-8.3.7/src/test/regress --temp-port=55432 --schedul
> e=./parallel_schedule --multibyte=SQL_ASCII --load-language=plpgsql
> ============== creating temporary installation        ==============
> ============== initializing database system           ==============
> ============== starting postmaster                    ==============
> Killed
> Killed

This seems an environment problem -- process limits set too low or
something like that.  It's not related to Postgres itself; it's the
kernel or some layer in between that's disallowing Postgres from running
normally.

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