----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Andrew Dunstan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "PG Patches" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 7:41 PM Subject: Re: [PATCHES] "make check" improvement for cygwin
> "Andrew Dunstan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The attached patch limits parallelism for "make check" on cygwin to 10 - me= > > aning that at least on my installation "make check" actually succeeds at la= > > st. > > If we're going to do something like that, I'd rather see it exposed as a > more general "at most N connections" knob, where the user could choose > N. There are plenty of other scenarios where such a restriction could > be useful --- for instance, "make check" runs up against > max-processes-per-user limits on a number of platforms. > > I would also rather that the user be forced to supply that number, to > make certain he realizes that he's got a very low number-of-connections > resource limit. Sweeping such problems under the rug is exactly what > "make check" should not do. > Sure - I was just sharing what I did to get things working, as I have seen reports on this from a number of people. I should be able to generalise it fairly easily. Something like this? make MAX_CONNECTIONS=10 check Maybe in the case of cygwin, where it is almost bound to fail without such restrictions, we could put out a warning if it isn't used. cheers andrew ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings