Re: [BUGS] Tests randomly failed

On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Justin Clift wrote:
> Out of curiosity, how many times are you running the tests?
> 
> I've been building 7.1RC1 over the weekend, and from one compiled
> version I ran the regression tests 5 times before getting things to
> pass.  No changes anywhere, just re-ran the tests.
> 
> So... it might be just co-incidence that the tests passed for you after
> the change you mentioned below.

> Alexander Klimov wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Tom Lane wrote:
> > > What I see is a lot of
> > >
> > > ! psql: Backend startup failed
> > >
> > > which suggests a fork() failure.  Look in the postmaster logfile to see
> > > the exact kernel error code --- but probably you are out of swap space
> > > or up against the kernel's limit on number of processes for one userid.
> > Strange, but this solution *also* works: I raise in /etc/system from 64 to
> > set maxuprc=256
> > revert pg_regress.sh in original state (with unix sockets for solaris),
> > and now all tests are passed.

Yes, it was really just incidence -- I try again, and 15 of 15 `make
check' passed with TCP sockets, but only 3 of 15 passed with UNIX
sockets. So, final decision is `Unix sockets are not relaible on Solaris'

Regards,
ASK