Re: [lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu: Third call for platform testing]

matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au> writes:
> digging into the regression.diffs, i can see that:
> - reltime failed because it just had:
> ! psql: Backend startup failed  
>    The postmaster log file should have more info, but a first thought is
>    that you ran up against process or swap-space limitations.  The parallel
>    check has fifty-odd processes going at its peak, which is more than the
>    default per-user process limit on many Unixen.

> hmm, maxproc=80 on this system currently and i wasn't really doing anything
> else.  it has 256MB ram and 280MB swap (unused).  exactly what am i looking
> for in the postmaster.log file?  it is 65kb long...

Look for messages about "fork failed".  They should give a kernel error
message too.
        regards, tom lane