kaffe sparc build needs requeued

Wed Apr 20 02:07:06 2005

On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 06:58:25PM -0700, Blars Blarson wrote:
> kaffe failed to build on a sparc buildd due to an inactivity timeout
> after 150 minutes.  It has built on my sparc pbuilder, taking about
> 100 minutes total.  (Ultra 2 dual 300 mhz, unless the build
> multi-processes about the same speed as vore.)

Well, there does seem to be a real problem with pthreads on some
architectures (sparc/mipsen/hppa), see the below message I sent to the
pkg-java list.

The exact root cause hasn't been determineted yet, but my guess is that
there's a serious pthreads related problem on those architectures with
kaffe for some reason.

--Jeroen

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From: Jeroen van Wolffelaar <jeroen@wolffelaar.nl>
Subject: Problem found with hppa/mipsen/sparc build timeouts
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 02:09:35 +0200

(please group-reply, I'm myself only on the pkg-java-maintainers
mailinglist)

Hi,

I think I found out the problem with the testsuite time-outing: pthread
enabled kaffe on some architectures is running very slowly (idling
mostly), and sometimes hangs.the testsuite timeout-killer doesn't work,
because lt-kaffe-bin doesn't listen to SIGTERM, a SIGKILL works (of
course) fine.

I could change the testsutie autokiller to SIGKILL always (does that
have any bad effects?), but then still, with 140+ tests and 5 minutes
timeout, the build would really take ages.

So... I think the best way to do is:
1) timeouts severly reduced, 30 seconds?
 (if one goes to look after a failed test, one will reasearch further
 anyway, and see the timeout and see if that might be the issue)
2) kill -KILL in the timeout.

Especially since we know now a lot of tests fail on some architectures,
I don't see any harm in running the risk of actidently cutting off a
test that would otherwise succeed in 30-300 seconds.

Comments?

--Jeroen

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