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.
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Peter Geoghegan