And good ol' snowball06 just did it again.

Dave

On 16 Oct 2012, at 18:54, Alexander Sack <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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