Fair enough. That test has more problems as the nightly worst-case is just
a total killer time-wise... I really think it should have a wall-clock
expiration deadline inside too.

Dawid

On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 2:26 PM Robert Muir <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 9:17 AM Dawid Weiss <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > I think there should be a better solution based on throttling. This test
> runs with 4 threads - I can imagine processes where an order of magnitude
> more threads will index in parallel (+ merges). So it should just work. I
> don't know how to fix it though it's causing additional noise for me when I
> scan the mailing list. Isn't switching to a different directory going to be
> a similar kind of non-fix workaround?
> >
>
> I don't think of it as a non-fix workaround. the test is supposed to
> be testing merge-on-getreader right? It isn't supposed to be testing
> throttling of excessive filehandles, although it is nice that it
> "discovered" an issue there.
>
> IMO, ideally we would add a separate test for that that explicitly
> tries to max out the file handles and ensures IW does the right thing.
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