Greetings list, I was recently advised to update my smokers to CPAN::Reporter 1.1803, to allow the truncation limit to increase. I obliged earlier this week. Since then, all or most of my smokers have apparently stopped automatically timing out. I will come back to find that the smoker has been on the same distribution for many hours, though rarely are they on the same distro or in the same point in the build cycle - I have observed them stopped in the middle of a test, or in the middle of compiling an XS module, etc. I have also observed them freezing up on the very first module to be tested. I use CPAN::Reporter::Smoker on Linux (Ubuntu, some older version) 32 bit, with perls build in alternate users' home directories and ulimit -v 150000 set and with command_timeout 1000. I have tried increasing the ulimit (to 250000) to no avail. I have also repeatedly restarted the smokers (using killall -u perl5100 perl, as ctrl-C would not work: terminal displayed control characters but nothing happened), clearing out the build directories, and lowering the system load to only one smoker at a time, to no avail, so I have had to downgrade my smokers to CPAN::Reporter 1.1801. Doing so appears to have corrected the issue.
I noticed a potentially similar however old bug report on RT, bug#61912. If there is any further information I can provide, please let me know. I can push one of my smokers back to 1.1803 if you'd like to test anything. --Dan -- DCollins/ST47 Stevens Institute of Technology Class of '13 Technical Staff, DeBaun Auditorium Lighting Designer, Noises Off, Stevens Dramatic Society 2010 Fall
