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Kevin Gallardo updated CASSANDRA-15686:
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    Description: 
I have been looking at and played around with the [default CircleCI 
config|https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/trunk/.circleci/config.yml], a 
few comments/questions regarding the following topics:
 * Python dtests do not run successfully (200-300 failures) on {{medium}} 
instances, they seem to only run with small flaky failures on {{large}} 
instances or higher
 * Python Upgrade tests:
 ** Do not seem to run without many failures on any instance types / any 
parallelism setting
 ** Do not seem to parallelize well, it seems each container is going to 
download multiple C* versions
 ** Additionally it seems the configuration is not up to date, as currently we 
get errors because {{JAVA8_HOME}} is not set
 * Unit tests do not seem to parallelize optimally, number of test runners do 
not reflect the available CPUs on the container. Ideally if # of runners == # 
of CPUs, build time is improved, on any type of instances.
 ** For instance when using the current configuration, running on medium 
instances, build will use 1 junit test runner, but 2 CPUs are available. If 
using 2 runners, the build time is reduced from 19min (at the current main 
config of parallelism=4) to 12min.
 * There are some typos in the file, some dtests say "Run Unit Tests" but they 
are JVM dtests (see 
[here|https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/trunk/.circleci/config.yml#L1077],
 
[here|https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/trunk/.circleci/config.yml#L1386])

So some ways to process these would be:
 * Do the Python dtests run successfully for anyone on {{medium}} instances? If 
not, would it make sense to bump them to {{large}} so that they can be run 
successfully?
 * Does anybody ever run the python upgrade tests on CircleCI and what is the 
configuration that makes it work?
 * Would it make sense to either hardcode the number of test runners in the 
unit tests with `-Dtest.runners` in the config file to reflect the number of 
CPUs on the instances, or change the build so that it is able to detect the 
appropriate number of core available automatically?

Additionally, it seems this default config file (config.yml) is not as well 
maintained as the 
[{{config-2_1.yml}}|https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/trunk/.circleci/config-2_1.yml]
 (+its lowres/highres) version in the same folder (from CASSANDRA-14806). What 
is the reasoning for maintaining these 2 versions of the build? Could the 
better maintained version be used as the default? We could generate a lowres 
version of the new config-2_1.yml, and rename it {{config.yml}} so that it gets 
picked up by CircleCI automatically instead of the current default.

  was:
I have been looking at and played around with the [default CircleCI 
config|https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/trunk/.circleci/config.yml], a 
few comments/questions regarding the following topics:
 * Python dtests do not run successfully (200-300 failures) on {{medium}} 
instances, they seem to only run with small flaky failures on {{large}} 
instances or higher
 * Python Upgrade tests:
 ** Do not seem to run without many failures on any instance types / any 
parallelism setting
 ** Do not seem to parallelize well, it seems each container is going to 
download multiple C* versions
 ** Additionally it seems the configuration is not up to date, as currently we 
get errors because {{JAVA8_HOME}} is not set
 * Unit tests do not seem to parallelize optimally, number of test runners do 
not reflect the available CPUs on the container. Ideally if # of runners == # 
of CPUs, build time is improved, on any type of instances.
 ** For instance when using the current configuration, running on medium 
instances, build will use 1 junit test runner, but 2 CPUs are available. If 
using 2 runners, the build time is reduced from 19min (at the current main 
config of parallelism=4) to 12min.
 * There are some typos in the file, some dtests say "Run Unit Tests" but they 
are JVM dtests (see 
[here|https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/trunk/.circleci/config.yml#L1077],
 
[here|https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/trunk/.circleci/config.yml#L1386])

So some ways to process these would be:
 * Do the Python dtests run successfully for anyone on {{medium}} instances? If 
not, would it make sense to bump them to {{large}} so that they can be run 
successfully?
 * Does anybody ever run the python upgrade tests on CircleCI and what is the 
configuration that makes it work?
 * Would it make sense to either hardcode the number of test runners in the 
unit tests with `-Dtest.runners` in the config file to reflect the number of 
CPUs on the instances, or change the build so that it is able to detect the 
appropriate number of core available automatically?

Additionally, it seems this default config file (config.yml) is not as well 
maintained as the 
[{{config-2_1.yml}}|https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/trunk/.circleci/config-2_1.yml]
 (+its lowres/highres) version in the same folder. What is the reasoning for 
maintaining these 2 versions of the build? Could the better maintained version 
be used as the default? We could generate a lowres version of the new 
config-2_1.yml, and rename it {{config.yml}} so that it gets picked up by 
CircleCI automatically instead of the current default.


> Improvements in circle CI default config
> ----------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CASSANDRA-15686
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-15686
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Kevin Gallardo
>            Priority: Normal
>
> I have been looking at and played around with the [default CircleCI 
> config|https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/trunk/.circleci/config.yml], 
> a few comments/questions regarding the following topics:
>  * Python dtests do not run successfully (200-300 failures) on {{medium}} 
> instances, they seem to only run with small flaky failures on {{large}} 
> instances or higher
>  * Python Upgrade tests:
>  ** Do not seem to run without many failures on any instance types / any 
> parallelism setting
>  ** Do not seem to parallelize well, it seems each container is going to 
> download multiple C* versions
>  ** Additionally it seems the configuration is not up to date, as currently 
> we get errors because {{JAVA8_HOME}} is not set
>  * Unit tests do not seem to parallelize optimally, number of test runners do 
> not reflect the available CPUs on the container. Ideally if # of runners == # 
> of CPUs, build time is improved, on any type of instances.
>  ** For instance when using the current configuration, running on medium 
> instances, build will use 1 junit test runner, but 2 CPUs are available. If 
> using 2 runners, the build time is reduced from 19min (at the current main 
> config of parallelism=4) to 12min.
>  * There are some typos in the file, some dtests say "Run Unit Tests" but 
> they are JVM dtests (see 
> [here|https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/trunk/.circleci/config.yml#L1077],
>  
> [here|https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/trunk/.circleci/config.yml#L1386])
> So some ways to process these would be:
>  * Do the Python dtests run successfully for anyone on {{medium}} instances? 
> If not, would it make sense to bump them to {{large}} so that they can be run 
> successfully?
>  * Does anybody ever run the python upgrade tests on CircleCI and what is the 
> configuration that makes it work?
>  * Would it make sense to either hardcode the number of test runners in the 
> unit tests with `-Dtest.runners` in the config file to reflect the number of 
> CPUs on the instances, or change the build so that it is able to detect the 
> appropriate number of core available automatically?
> Additionally, it seems this default config file (config.yml) is not as well 
> maintained as the 
> [{{config-2_1.yml}}|https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/trunk/.circleci/config-2_1.yml]
>  (+its lowres/highres) version in the same folder (from CASSANDRA-14806). 
> What is the reasoning for maintaining these 2 versions of the build? Could 
> the better maintained version be used as the default? We could generate a 
> lowres version of the new config-2_1.yml, and rename it {{config.yml}} so 
> that it gets picked up by CircleCI automatically instead of the current 
> default.



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