We could add a separate option to DumpRenderTree to disable ReportCrash (sign up for all the crashing signals and simply exit(2) or similar). That would be useful in many instances besides the bots.
Yes, --exit-after-N-failures was designed to prevent crashers from eating the bots. On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Geoffrey Garen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ojan. > > I wonder if it would help to distinguish --exit-after-n-failures from > --exit-after-n-crashes. > > I think that crashing tests are the biggest problem, since they can cause a > bot to lag behind quite a bit. > > Geoff > > On Jun 16, 2010, at 1:57 PM, Ojan Vafai wrote: > >> Currently, --exit-after-n-failures on the bots is set to 20. I like the idea >> of exiting early, but I think 20 is too low. We should up it to 100. Is >> anyone opposed to that? >> >> There are some straightforward, mechanical patches that cause more than 20 >> tests to fail where they just need new expected results (e.g. changing form >> control or scrollbar metrics). Right now, to make such a change you need >> access to every platform so you can create new results or you need to get >> someone who has access to that platform to pull in your change and create >> new results. >> >> The problem that confounds this is that many people have trouble ever >> getting all the tests to pass on Windows. I've never succeeded. There are >> always ~50 tests that fail for me and it's not due to lack of trying. So, >> even though I have access to Windows, it's hard for me to get new expected >> results for Windows changes. >> >> Long-term we really need a solution that lets you get expected results for a >> platform you don't have access to without committing code, e.g., the EWS >> archiving results for failing tests. >> >> Ojan >> _______________________________________________ >> webkit-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev > > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev > _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
