Thanks Dan. This helped.

Regards,
Vivek

On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 12:49 PM, Amogh Shetkar <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks Dan.
> Thanks Kirk, I too suspected test-pollution to be the case here and hence
> wanted to run the same suite of tests together multiple times to repro the
> issue.
>
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 6:24 AM, Kirk Lund <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Rerunning a test repeatedly may not reproduce some failures that Jenkins
> > might hit with end-to-end tests such as our dunit tests. Failures in our
> > dunit tests often fall into the following categories:
> >
> > 1) test pollution -- a previous test leaves around some changes to the
> JVM
> > (static values, System properties, DistributedSystem config)
> >
> > 2) race conditions under machine load -- test may use Thread.sleeps that
> > work well on an unloaded machine or test may use WaitCriterion that
> appears
> > correct but is actually checking some related criteria that doesn't 100%
> > remove a race condition (more difficult to explain but maybe Darrel could
> > share a recent test bug along these lines)
> >
> > #1 may require running all (or a subset of) tests repeatedly until the
> > failure reproduces.
> >
> > #2 may require some artificial system load using a tool such as ConTest
> [1]
> > or anything for simulating CPU-load [2]
> >
> > [1] - https://www.research.ibm.com/haifa/projects/verification/contest/
> > [2] -
> >
> >
> http://superuser.com/questions/443406/how-can-i-produce-high-cpu-load-on-a-linux-server
> >
> > -Kirk
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 2:39 PM, Dan Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > A couple of other people have run into this. I think I have a fix for
> > this
> > > in the gradle build.
> > >
> > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GEODE-149
> > > https://reviews.apache.org/r/36660/
> > >
> > > -Dan
> > >
> > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 7:26 AM, Amogh Shetkar <[email protected]>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > > I'm trying to run a unit test multiple times to reproduce a failure
> > which
> > > > is seen intermittently.
> > > > I use the gradle command:
> > > >
> > > > ./gradlew -DdistributedTest.single=<UnitTestName>
> > > > gemfire-core:distributedTest
> > > >
> > > > Is there any support available in gradle to do that?
> > > >
> > > > If I simply repeat above command, only the first iteration executes
> the
> > > > unit test and subsequent ones
> > > > do not, unless I delete the test-results directory.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Amogh.
> > > >
> > >
> >
>

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