Tom Lane wrote: > I noticed today on my own machine several strange pauses while running > the serial regression tests --- the machine didn't seem to be hitting > the disk nor sucking lots of CPU, it just sat there for several seconds > and then picked up again. I wonder if that's related. It sure seems it > must be due to autovac being on now.
The only pauses I see are are in the "stats" and the "prepared_xacts" tests. The latter is due to a test that uses statement_timeout to detect a lock, and the stat test does a pg_sleep(2.0) call. Do those explain what you are seeing? -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
