2010/9/23 Patricia Shanahan <[email protected]> > On 9/23/2010 7:25 AM, Jonathan Costers wrote: > >> 2010/9/23 Patricia Shanahan<[email protected]> >> >> I'll set up another VirtualBox Ubuntu and use the Sun JDK to build and >>> run >>> in it. If the test ever fails I'll know the JDK is not the issue. If it >>> does >>> not fail, the best I'll be able to do is estimate the posterior >>> probability >>> of a failure rate due to similar probability of failure to the observed >>> rate >>> on OpenJDK, given 0 observed failures on N runs. >>> >>> >> One question, how much RAM are you assigning to your VMs? >> > > 1 GB per VirtualBox. I also tell them there are 8 processors, so they can > use all the hardware threads there are on my computer. > > > >> Also, it may be interesting to note is that on Hudson, when using the >> ubuntu >> executors, the QA test suite consistently passes. >> On the solaris executors however, we consistently get one failing test. >> That is why you are seeing failed and passed builds intermittently being >> reported by Hudson. >> >> Would anybody oppose to split the QA build again: >> - one build only running on solaris executors (this one should >> consistently >> fail, for now) >> - one build only running on ubuntu executors (this one should consistently >> pass) >> - both are mutually exclusive, so if one is running, the other must wait >> (to >> not bring the Apache infrastructure to its knees ...) >> - eventually, we can look at running the QA suite on a windows(!) executor >> as well ...<ducks> >> > > I would like to see MS-Windows added as soon as possible. It is a rather > popular operating system. I recently saw a major regression running QA on > WindowsXP, so that I am currently limited to my VirtualBox environments. >
For me, the whole suite passes, only we cannot have any spaces in any paths (JDK, Ant, river trunk, etc.), as I mentioned a while ago. > Patricia >
