Why: A timed window that starts under load average above 16 is not a usable baseline, and creating the instance first only to pause wastes a startup.
Evidence: The rerun at load 24.03 exited 3 before any timed window and removed the instance.
Impact: The pause now happens before initdb. No change to the benchmark itself.
Refs: docs/release-multi-instance.md B6
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Why: The percentile reader also opened the pgbench stdout file, so the first run exited 1 after six successful windows.
Evidence: Parser check on results/pgbench-20261012-131229 select-only-10 gave p50 0.018 ms, matching the reported average. The timed rerun is recorded next.
Impact: Percentile parsing only. The six windows themselves had zero failed transactions.
Refs: docs/release-multi-instance.md B6
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>