Win XP SP2 SMP locking (8.1.4)

Hi there,

I'm looking into strange locking, which happens on WinXP SP2 SMP
machine running 8.1.4 with stats_row_level=on. This is the only
combination (# of cpu and stats_row_level) which has problem -
SMP + stats_row_level.

The same test runs fine with one cpu (restarted machine with /numproc=1)
disregarding to stats_row_level option.

Customer's application loads data into database and sometimes process
stopped, no cpu, no io activity. PgAdmin shows current query is 'COMMIT'.
I tried to attach gdb to postgres and client processes, but backtrace looks
useless (see below). Running vacuum analyze of this database in separate
process cause loading process to continue ! Weird.

It's interesting, that there is no problem with 8.2beta1 in all
combinations ! Any idea what changes from 8.1.4 to 8.2beta1 could
affect the problem ?

postgres.exe:

(gdb) bt
#0 0x7c901231 in ntdll!DbgUiConnectToDbg () from
C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntdll.dll
#1 0x7c9507a8 in ntdll!KiIntSystemCall () from
C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntdll.dll
#2 0x00000005 in ?? ()
#3 0x00000004 in ?? ()
#4 0x00000001 in ?? ()
#5 0x019effd0 in ?? ()
#6 0xf784e548 in ?? ()
#7 0xffffffff in ?? ()
#8 0x7c90ee18 in strchr () from C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntdll.dll
#9 0x7c9507c8 in ntdll!KiIntSystemCall () from
C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntdll.dll
#10 0x00000000 in ?? () from #11 0x00000000 in ?? () from #12 0x00000000 in
?? () from #13 0x00000000 in ?? () from (gdb) Cannot access memory at
address 0x19f0000

application:
(gdb) bt
#0 0x7c901231 in ntdll!DbgUiConnectToDbg () from
C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntdll.dll
#1 0x7c9507a8 in ntdll!KiIntSystemCall () from
C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntdll.dll
#2 0x00000005 in ?? ()
#3 0x00000004 in ?? ()
#4 0x00000001 in ?? ()
#5 0x0196ffd0 in ?? ()
#6 0x7c97c0d8 in ntdll!NtAccessCheckByTypeResultListAndAuditAlarm ()
#7 0xffffffff in ?? ()
#8 0x7c90ee18 in strchr () from C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntdll.dll
#9 0x7c9507c8 in ntdll!KiIntSystemCall () from
C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntdll.dll
#10 0x00000000 in ?? () from
#11 0x00000000 in ?? () from
#12 0x00000000 in ?? () from
#13 0x00000000 in ?? () from
(gdb) Cannot access memory at address 0x1970000

Regards,
Oleg
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Oleg Bartunov, Research Scientist, Head of AstroNet (www.astronet.ru),
Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Russia
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