"Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby@pervasive.com> writes:
> On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 03:09:30PM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> I have had an idea for some time that is actually much simpler -- just
>> launch several backends at once to do different things, and randomly
>> send SIGSTOP and SIGCONT to each. If they keep doing whatever they are
>> doing in infinite loops, and you leave it enough time, it's very likely
>> that you'll get problems if the concurrent locking (or whatever) is not
>> right.
> This is probably worth doing as well, since it would simulate what an
> IO-bound system would look like.
While that might be useful for testing, it'd absolutely suck for
debugging, because of the difficulty of reproducing a problem :-(
regards, tom lane