On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 17:05, Doug McNaught wrote:
> Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com> writes:
>
> > About 1 in every 5 runs of the (parallel) regression tests are failing
> > for me with CVS HEAD: the triggers, inherit, vacuum, sanity_check, and
> > misc tests fail. I can make the failures occur fairly consistently by
> > running "make check" over and over again until the problem crops up.
> >
> > The platform is Linux 2.4, gcc 3.2. I've attached the regression.diffs
> > file.
> >
> > Any ideas on what the cause might be?
>
> Hardware?
>
> If it's a software bug, you'd generally expect it to happen each and
> every time...
It could be an order dependency in a parallel group.
The sequential runs don't throw a periodic error do they?
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