Hi Rafael, On 18-11-2020 19:20, Paul Gevers wrote: > On 18-11-2020 08:54, Rafael Laboissière wrote: >>> Your package has an autopkgtest, great! However, it fails due to >>> timeout on ppc64el (after 2:47 hours) and regularly on amd64 too. Can >>> you please investigate and fix the situation? >>> >>> To avoid needlessly stress our infrastructure, I'll block this package >>> on ppc64el until this bug is fixed. >> >> Thanks for the heads up, Paul. >> >> Since the xmds2 package has a huge amount of unit tests and since they >> involve numerical computation of complicated problems (partial >> differential equations), running the whole set of tests takes usually a >> lot of time. > > Is that really the problem? Is ppc64el so much slower than the other > architectures (I didn't just now check the numbers, but thought they are > regularly *much* lower)? Also, what makes the difference for the timing > out ones on amd64? The load on the host? I just noticed that all the tests that timed out on amd64 in the last two months were done on ci-worker13. That is our most powerful host. Maybe it's capable of a bit too much? Too much parallelism? Race conditions? Paul
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