Re: minor windows & cygwin regression failures on stable

Andrew Dunstan wrote:

>> As far as the test failure, maybe we are just not allowing enough time
>> for the stats collector to run?  The thing sits there for 2 sec, which
>> theoretically is plenty, but it's a busy-wait loop and if the Cygwin
>> scheduler is not aggressive about taking away timeslices then maybe
>> the stats processes don't get to run.  Try doing the test script by
>> hand, with just a manual delay instead of the sleep function, and see
>> if it passes.
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> Yes, when I do that it works. But even when I increase the interval to 
> 30 secs the regression script fails. I tried to use a sleep function 
> that didn't do a busy-wait loop, but plperl seems to segfault on this 
> platform :-( What fun.
>
>

Further data point - the expected result appears when I set the sleep 
interval at 1 minute, but not at 40 secs. That does indicate that the 
stats collector is actually running and doing its job (kinda).

cheers

andrew