Re: Intermittent buildfarm failures on wrasse

On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 7:54 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> This is far from the first time that I've failed to reproduce a buildfarm
> result manually, even on the very machine hosting the animal.  I would
> like to identify the cause(s) of that.  One obvious theory is that the
> environment under a cron job is different --- but the only thing I know
> of that should be different is possibly nice'ing the job priorities.
> I did try a fair number of test cycles under "nice" in this case.
> Anybody have other ideas?

Well, Noah is running wrasse with 'fsync = off'. And did so in the
script as well.

That seems like it definitely could matter.

-- 
Peter Geoghegan