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Bug#785651: glibc: test run times out on ci.debian.net; maybe don't force a build every time



Hi all,

On Sat, 4 Aug 2018 18:48:44 +0200 Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
wrote:
> On 2018-07-23 22:17, Paul Gevers wrote:
> > On Sun, 01 Apr 2018 21:56:33 +0200 Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
> > > > I have no idea. On a fast 4-cores amd64 machine and for the 3 flavours
> > > > built on amd64, the glibc takes around 20 minutes to build and the
> > > > testsuite around 2h to run.
> > > 
> > > This is still rather slow.  I see native builds on relatively current
> > > hardware taking 2 minutes, plus 12 to 15 minutes to build and run the
> > > test suite (all with parallel make, although parallel make for tests
> > > is disabled automatically for some subdirectories).  200 minutes on
> > > current (amd64) hardware sounds quite excessive.
> > 
> > I just did a retry on our infrastructure and it ran in 57 minutes. But
> > it ran on one of the two big workers (8 cores and 30 GB memory). We want
> > to make all workers equal and we are going down to 2 cores and 7.2 GB.
> > 
> > Could it be that the memory is the actual problem and/or also an issue?
> 
> I don't think think the memory is really a problem, at least not for the
> values you give. A few tests might be memory hungry, but 4GB should be
> enough.

I retried another time, now that all the workers are equivalent. The
current test suite runs in around 2:10 on our infrastructure. Albeit
long, I will remove glibc from the blacklist.

However, we would still appreciate it when the test can be made smarter.

Paul

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