On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 6:35 PM, Nicolas Sylvain <nsylv...@chromium.org>wrote:
> > > On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Andrew Scherkus <scher...@chromium.org>wrote: > >> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Nicolas Sylvain >> <nsylv...@chromium.org>wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Andrew Scherkus <scher...@chromium.org >>> > wrote: >>> >>>> I've never witnessed these tests taking an extra 10-20 seconds on my >>>> local machine, no. >>>> >>>> I don't doubt that some of the tests might be flaky themselves, but that >>>> machine does run tests slower. Take a look at the SVG tests, for example: >>>> >>>> http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/webkit/tools/layout_tests/flakiness_dashboard.html#tests=LayoutTests%2Fsvg >>>> >>>> Are there other tricks I do on my local machine to simulate running on >>>> the bots? I usually try to test for these things by maxing out my CPU then >>>> running layout tests but even then they run smoothly. >>>> >>> >>> This machine is one of the oldest linux machine we have in the lab. I'll >>> recreate it, make sure it run fast, and see if it helps. >>> >> >> Thanks Nicolas. >> > > I changed the machine, and so far so good. The time to run the layout tests > on this machine went from 11minutes to 5 minutes. Looks like > something was wrong on the machine after all. There are still some > flakiness... but at least they are not TIMEOUT. > > Thanks > > Nicolas > Looks like the ball is back in my court to fix the tests now :P Thanks for investigating! Andrew > > >> >> I'm wondering if it's slow disk access... know of any simple commands I >> can use to simulate disk thrashing? >> >> >>> >>> Nicolas >>> >>> >>>> Andrew >>>> >>>> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Nicolas Sylvain < >>>> nsylv...@chromium.org> wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Andrew Scherkus < >>>>> scher...@chromium.org> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> I've been trying to get the media layout tests passing consistently, >>>>>> but WebKit Linux (dbg)(3) takes an absurdly longer time to run tests and >>>>>> I >>>>>> don't know why. >>>>>> >>>>>> For example: >>>>>> >>>>>> http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/webkit/tools/layout_tests/flakiness_dashboard.html#tests=video-played >>>>>> >>>>>> To keep the tree green (and collect data), I've marked all media >>>>>> layout tests on Linux debug as pass/fail/timeout. My hope is if the bot >>>>>> was >>>>>> less bogged down, it would lead to faster build times (GTTF) and less >>>>>> flaky >>>>>> results/timeouts (LTTF). >>>>>> >>>>>> This machine is supposed to be fast. >>>>> >>>>> Are you saying that this flakiness never happens on your machine? >>>>> >>>>> Are you sure the bot is really to blame here? >>>>> >>>>> Nicolas >>>>> >>>>> Any ideas? >>>>>> Andrew >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: chromium-dev@googlegroups.com View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
