On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 06:17:37PM -0700, Buddy Burden wrote: > Leon, > >>> *** Signal 9 > > That one is obvious, it has been SIGKILLed. Probably the tester > > thought the tests were hanging. > Well, that's probably the most common error ... surely there can't be > _that_ many CPAN Testers folks hanging around actually _watching_ the > tests run and killing them when they take too long. No, but there are testers who have watchdog processes to kill off anything that runs for an unfeasibly long time.
> Typically CPAN > Testers testing is done in an automated fashion, no? And, anyway, if > you _were_ going to run the tests manually, you wouldn't turn on > $AUTOMATED_TESTING, would you? I start my test runs manually, and then just leave them running in the background. Every so often I check on them, and if one of them appears to have got stuck I give it a kick. -- David Cantrell | London Perl Mongers Deputy Chief Heretic "Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats." -- H. L. Mencken
