Thanks MJ and Philip for the replies. I added a comment:
https://gerrit.cloudera.org/c/9291/11/tests/common/custom_cluster_test_suite.py#128

Cheers, Lars

On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 3:06 PM, Matthew Jacobs <[email protected]> wrote:

> I think that it was an oversight. That said, given that custom cluster
> tests may also set the same flags (e.g. mem_limit as Phil pointed out)
> I'm not sure the desired behavior would be immediately obvious. It may
> just be best to clarify the name and/or comment on
> TEST_START_CLUSTER_ARGS.
>
> On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 11:02 AM, Philip Zeyliger <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > It's definitely handy. I've used it for specifying things like
> --mem_limit
> > when running inside a container. I think Lars' question is more about
> what
> > the custom cluster tests should do with it.
> >
> > -- Philip
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 10:48 AM, Matthew Jacobs <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> I had introduced this while I was working at Cloudera for jenkins jobs
> >> to specify RM-related parameters to the test environment. At that
> >> time, I had one or more jenkins jobs that were setting this
> >> environment variable. I do not know if Cloudera or any other Impala
> >> developers are trying to use this. If nobody seems to be using this
> >> anymore, it would be good to remove.
> >>
> >> Best,
> >> mj
> >>
> >> commit adf4b4863d7ea38fda21ec76f5699b4fd31e10c0
> >> Author: Matthew Jacobs <[email protected]>
> >> Date:   Wed May 13 17:14:11 2015 -0700
> >>
> >>     Allow specifying cluster start args in run-all-tests.sh
> >>
> >>     This will enable jenkins jobs to specify custom arguments when
> >>     starting the mini cluster (via start-impala-cluster.py). This
> >>     will be used to create a jenkins job that runs tests with RM
> >>     enabled.
> >>
> >>     Change-Id: I96a2e8d90db448581bbf448f3df514381f79fb27
> >>     Reviewed-on: http://gerrit.cloudera.org:8080/380
> >>     Reviewed-by: Matthew Jacobs <[email protected]>
> >>     Tested-by: Internal Jenkins
> >>
> >> On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 10:18 AM, Lars Volker <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> > Hi All,
> >> >
> >> > Mike noticed in a review that TEST_START_CLUSTER_ARGS are not applied
> in
> >> > custom cluster tests and we wondered whether that is on purpose or a
> bug.
> >> > Can someone with historic knowledge shed some light on it? The
> relevant
> >> > code is here:
> >> >
> >> > https://github.com/apache/impala/blob/5f7599687748b1e1ce0a5a34d38cc4
> >> 9a4c4cd9f5/tests/common/custom_cluster_test_suite.py#L124
> >> >
> >> > Thanks, Lars
> >>
>

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