On Fri, 26 Nov 2021 at 21:47, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> Yeah ... on the one hand, that machine has shown signs of
> hard-to-reproduce flakiness, so it's easy to write off the failures
> I saw as hardware issues. On the other hand, the flakiness I've
> seen has otherwise manifested as kernel crashes, which is nothing
> like the consistent test failures I was seeing with the patch.
Hm. I asked around and found a machine I can use that can run PPC
binaries, but it's actually, well, confusing. I think this is an x86
machine running Leopard which uses JIT to transparently run PPC
binaries. I'm not sure this is really a good test.
But if you're interested and can explain the tests to run I can try to
get the tests running on this machine:
IBUILD:~ gsstark$ uname -a
Darwin IBUILD.MIT.EDU 9.8.0 Darwin Kernel Version 9.8.0: Wed Jul 15
16:55:01 PDT 2009; root:xnu-1228.15.4~1/RELEASE_I386 i386
IBUILD:~ gsstark$ sw_vers
ProductName: Mac OS X
ProductVersion: 10.5.8
BuildVersion: 9L31a