Re: Adopt a platform today!

[Sebastian Reitenbach]

On Wednesday, February 23, 2011 08:38:20 am Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
> On 22 Feb 2011, at 18:07, Sebastian Reitenbach wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > this happens on OpenBSD/i386 for the base tests:
> > 
> > 4989 Passed tests
> > 140 Failed files
> > 108 Failed builds
> > 
> >   2 Failed tests
> >   2 Dashed hopes
> > 
> > Some of the failed files, about 5 to 10 i killed, since at least some of
> > them were running for about half an hour already, so I thought there
> > sth. might be screwed? Or is that normal, and I was just too impatient,
> > and should rerun it, and leave it running? The tests.sum is attached.
> 
> Some tests *are* slow (particularly the I/O related ones where we trying
> reading/writing data in lots of different sized blocks in order to check
> for buffer size issues), and I know you run things on slow machines, but
> even so that sounds like a very long time. Also, looking at the summary,
> the output doesn't look right ... so maybe there's a problem with the test
> framework. I don't know when you checked it out from svn, but there have
> been a lot of changes made in the last few days,  some will have
> temporarily broken things, some were for performance improvements, and
> some were addressing portability issues.  It would be worth checking out a
> new copy (and making note of the svn revision you checked out) and trying
> that.
> 
> It's also possible for individual tests to hang ... I've just found that it
> looks like on solaris 8 the system locking implementation doesn't actually
> support the pthreads api properly and that causes one of the locking tests
> to deadlock :-(

ah, and I forgot: would it be possible for tests that run multiple tests, to 
output the test results one by one to see kind of progress, to prevent me from 
thinking its hanging in a kind of deadlock? As far as I've seen, some of the 
tests I killed, they afterwards wrote some lines to the logfile in  a batch. 
If I'd have seen those lines added for each test, I'd be probably more patient 
and wait...

Sebastian