Bug#920546: dolfin: flaky autopkgtest as it times out sometimes

Drew Parsons dparsons at debian.org
Mon Jun 17 22:22:34 BST 2019


Source: dolfin
Followup-For: Bug #920546

Took a while, but we eventually got the timeout error again in a debci
test for 2019.1.0. One fail after 32 successful tests. That's
evidently much less frequent than the timeout errors for 2018.1.0,
indicating the new version has fixed some of the race conditions but
not all.

debci provides only 2 CPUs, but the dolfin MPI test uses 3 processes,
so the test is oversubscribed.

However upstream says that oversubscribed MPI tests are in fact
useful, and can help iron out bugs.  They say that the MPI tests are
not expected to time out the way we've been experiencing, so I'll draw
their attention to the ongoing problem in 2019.1.

This first C++ test fail in 2019.1 occured during demo_gmg-poisson_mpi.



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