sounds good. can we also pick one of the boards that we believe is
good/better and do the same there?

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 7:50 PM, Dave Pigott <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 16 Oct 2012, at 17:22, Alexander Sack <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> +anmar
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Andy Doan <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On 10/16/2012 02:26 AM, Lee Jones wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, 15 Oct 2012, Andy Doan wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 10/15/2012 01:04 PM, Alexander Sack wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> --------------------
>>>>>>>>>> snowball06/08
>>>>>>>>>> --------------------
>>>>>>>>>> http://192.168.1.10/lava-server/scheduler/job/35179
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> eth0 failed to come up. We see this a lot with snowballs.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> "We see this a lot" -- do we have actual numbers?  To everyone:
>>>>>>>> assuming
>>>>>>>> not, what can we do to get some?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I keep the log of health check failures at:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> https://docs.google.com/a/linaro.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AnxpY5uv-BlNdG9zYTdDLWZWRVFGaWFxQzRLNWtaNmc#gid=8
>>>>>
>>>>> In the past 5 days its happened 4 times on snowball.
>>>>>
>>>>> Prior to that. In a span of 25 health failures snowball accounted
>>>>> for 8 of the failures. Half of those failures look like this
>>>>> problem. So this snowball issue is accounting for around 16% of our
>>>>> health check failures.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> So it works sometimes, but not others? Sounds like a h/w bug.
>>
>> could be hwbug, but driver bugs can also give undeterministic
>> behaviour in full system stacks from what i experience (racy things
>> etc.). Since we are in software business I feel we should look closer
>> at the software side before disregarding something as hwbug ...
>>
>> How can we nail the source of this? Maybe we have a kernel that we
>> have the guts feeling is better than the 12.02 and could give that a
>> stress test try?
>
> Idea for a plan: We take snowball06 and run loop tests on 12.{03-09} for a 
> few days and see if any one seems to behave better than the others?
>
> Dave



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