[
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-15686?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=17078372#comment-17078372
]
Kevin Gallardo commented on CASSANDRA-15686:
--------------------------------------------
bq. Unit tests should be able to complete on Circle CI with medium instances.
The unit tests are run automatically, so that's the default.
JVM dtests also run by default FWIW, they are able to complete on medium
instances, as opposed to the Python dtests.
bq. Pretty much all others won't due to limited resources. You shouldn't try
running them, but if you do, then we can't guarantee they may complete unless
high resource settings are used.
Right, that was my understanding initially. Since those tests are available to
run on the lowres config though, and there is no guidance or document saying
they are not reliable on low config, and people get confused as to why the
Python dtests for example run with 200-300 failures when using the default
config. I was suggesting here to either bump up the default config, so that
they can be run successfully, or remove them from the config since they can't
be run (and only keep them in the HIGHRES file?), or maybe document this
better. I understood David recommended fixing the tests to make them run on
medium instances too, that sounds reasonable too IMO if it makes things less
confusing in the long run.
Thanks for the input
> Improvements in circle CI default config
> ----------------------------------------
>
> Key: CASSANDRA-15686
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-15686
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Build
> 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.
--
This message was sent by Atlassian Jira
(v8.3.4#803005)
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected]
For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
