I re-enabled this jenkins job, configured for weekly runs now, not daily.
We have other CI servers, notably Crave, that run about 96 threads, and
tests pass.  So I don't think the thread level is unreasonable.  The s390X
build is running now...
https://ci-builds.apache.org/job/Solr/job/Solr-Test-main-s390x/1010/console

On Thu, Nov 20, 2025 at 8:44 AM Sudip Roy <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Thank you for the detailed information.
>
> Regarding the parallel tests, would it be possible to reduce the number of
> parallel test executions on the runners to see if that helps?
> Please let us know if there's anything we can do to support. We're more
> than happy to assist with anything needed on our side.
>
> Regards,
> Sudip Roy
> ________________________________
> From: David Smiley <[email protected]>
> Sent: 26 August 2025 09:33
> To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Inquire About Recent Disabling of s390x CI in
> Apache Solr
>
> I don't think we know how to answer that other than to say -- similar to
> other machines.  Which is no special hardware, really.  I'm skeptical
> replacing the machine with a faster one actually solves anything
> fundamentally.
>
> I suspect that the real underlying problem is flakiness in Solr that
> triggers in scenarios when Solr is running slowly for whatever reason,
> which could be doing too much work in parallel (like too many tests in
> parallel).  Maybe we could simply configure that build to use fewer test
> runners.
>
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2025 at 10:38 AM Sudip Roy <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Could you please share the system specifications required for the tests
> to
> > run smoothly on s390x? We are working on providing new hardware.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Sudip Roy
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Sudip Roy <[email protected]>
> > Sent: 23 July 2025 12:16
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: Inquire About Recent Disabling of s390x CI in Apache Solr
> >
> > Hi Houston,
> >
> > Thanks for the clarification. Totally understand the concern around flaky
> > tests due to hardware limitations.
> > We can look into upgrading the hardware for the s390x runners to better
> > support the test suite. Could you please share the kind of configuration
> > that will be needed?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Sudip Roy
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Houston Putman <[email protected]>
> > Sent: 23 July 2025 07:01
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: Inquire About Recent Disabling of s390x CI in Apache Solr
> >
> > Yeah, that was me.
> >
> > I am obviously happy to have Solr tested on as many architectures as
> > possible. It's just a problem when the tests are much more likely failing
> > because of underpowered hardware on the test runner. So in order to clean
> > up our failing tests reporter, I thought it made sense to disable the
> s390x
> > builds.
> >
> > Would it be possible to get a more powerful test runner so that our tests
> > are much less flaky on it?
> >
> > - Houston
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 22, 2025 at 12:38 PM Mike Drob <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > There was a previous question about this on the mailing list a few
> > > days ago
> > > -
> > > https://lists.apache.org/
> > > &d=DwIFaQ&c=BSDicqBQBDjDI9RkVyTcHQ&r=89rAlzwEGrdOvdu8CVs_Po_VWALHAuHSt
> > > GQRY8YB0i8&m=_EQkWWBOawwWgF6Yhsg_NMTBa24rwkEPJg6-TP6kCwXUagedPf3_eiwGp
> > > M5dBxLF&s=uGXAmJvZxR4cqsyX1rWq5TBSTbvUOM8hKkzX8OploBY&e=
> > > thread_5lzz0320n9v5ljnk1hwwplxpylqr1zbj&d=DwIFaQ&c=BSDicqBQBDjDI9RkVyT
> > > cHQ&r=89rAlzwEGrdOvdu8CVs_Po_VWALHAuHStGQRY8YB0i8&m=vwNQSnAJr8opb7WsL5
> > > _A66dYCzQNzWgxsZ6E_gx13k45UFR-yfe_ifZtIOO-Xr-A&s=GA_jY-Erfm8AHZbBxX_cv
> > > KKGxEi1e0nMPhsl36Y4Qnw&e=
> > >
> > > On Tue, Jul 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM Ishan Chattopadhyaya <
> > > [email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > > > I noticed that Apache Solr CI support for the s390x architecture
> > > > > has
> > > been
> > > > disabled recently
> > > >
> > > > I don't remember seeing this architecture before. Are you referring
> > > > to
> > > this
> > > > architecture being used in ASF Jenkins for Apache Solr project?
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, 22 Jul 2025 at 10:25, Sudip Roy <[email protected]>
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hello,
> > > > >
> > > > > I noticed that Apache Solr CI support for the s390x architecture
> > > > > has
> > > been
> > > > > disabled recently. We rely on Apache Solr on s390x systems, and
> > > > > the
> > > > removal
> > > > > of CI coverage makes it more difficult to ensure ongoing
> > > > > compatibility
> > > > and
> > > > > catch regressions early.
> > > > > I've raised a JIRA issue about this concern (
> > > > > https://issues.apache
> > > > > &d=DwIFaQ&c=BSDicqBQBDjDI9RkVyTcHQ&r=89rAlzwEGrdOvdu8CVs_Po_VWALHA
> > > > > uHStGQRY8YB0i8&m=_EQkWWBOawwWgF6Yhsg_NMTBa24rwkEPJg6-TP6kCwXUagedP
> > > > > f3_eiwGpM5dBxLF&s=w9pAsho8IsjTGtic3OSqQ6kiUhQKs3qgjc7MhhZLun4&e=
> > > > >
> >
> .org_jira_browse_SOLR-2D17807&d=DwIFaQ&c=BSDicqBQBDjDI9RkVyTcHQ&r=89rAlzwEGrdOvdu8CVs_Po_VWALHAuHStGQRY8YB0i8&m=vwNQSnAJr8opb7WsL5_A66dYCzQNzWgxsZ6E_gx13k45UFR-yfe_ifZtIOO-Xr-A&s=r2fm48wDw9SQmfm9J5m8-0deIZS8t0zpXk_YcgEUgV8&e=
> > ), and I was advised there to ask on the solr-dev mailing list for more
> > information.
> > > > > We're happy to help if there's an opportunity to collaborate on
> > > restoring
> > > > > support for s390x.
> > > > > Thanks in advance for your time and help.
> > > > >
> > > > > Regards,
> > > > > Sudip Roy
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
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