Re: Adding NetBSD and OpenBSD to Postgres CI

On 2026-01-05 13:36:50 -0500, Andres Freund wrote:
> The openbsd/netbsd CI tasks are occasionally failing due to reaching the
> process limit. See e.g.
> https://cirrus-ci.com/task/5559228405907456
> +psql: error: connection to server on socket "/tmp/pg_regress-nQ1wk1/.s.PGSQL.40056" failed: could not fork new
processfor connection: Resource temporarily unavailable
 
> 
> This is due to the ulimit -p 256 in .cirrus.tasks.yml not being high enough.
> The ulimit on openbsd couldn't trivially be increased with ulimit, because of
> hitting the hard limit.  Instead of increasing the limit in the CI script, the
> CI image generation now increases the limits:
>   https://github.com/anarazel/pg-vm-images/pull/129
> 
> I plan to push this patch soon.

And done.