Re: Win XP SP2 SMP locking (8.1.4)

On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, Magnus Hagander wrote:

>> Hi there,
>>
>> I'm looking into strange locking, which happens on WinXP SP2
>> SMP machine running 8.1.4 with stats_row_level=on. This is
>> the only combination (# of cpu and stats_row_level) which has
>> problem - SMP + stats_row_level.
>>
>> The same test runs fine with one cpu (restarted machine with
>> /numproc=1) disregarding to stats_row_level option.
>>
>> Customer's application loads data into database and sometimes
>> process stopped, no cpu, no io activity. PgAdmin shows
>> current query is 'COMMIT'.
>> I tried to attach gdb to postgres and client processes, but
>> backtrace looks useless (see below). Running vacuum analyze
>> of this database in separate process cause loading process to
>> continue ! Weird.
>>
>> It's interesting, that there is no problem with 8.2beta1 in
>> all combinations !  Any idea what changes from 8.1.4 to
>> 8.2beta1 could affect the problem ?
>
> There is a new implementations of semaphores in 8.2. That could possibly
> be it.

I backported them to REL8_1_STABLE but it doesn't helped. Any other idea
what to do, or how to debug the situation ?


    Regards,        Oleg
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