On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Ben Reser <ben_at_reser.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 2:01 AM, Johan Corveleyn <jcorvel_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> However, I'm wondering now if perhaps there's an issue with the size
>> of the ramdisk (and increased need for disk space during the tests).
>> My ramdisk is only 128 MB large, which has sufficed until now. Perhaps
>> I now need to enlarge it. I'll try increasing it to 256 MB, and
>> rerunning the testsuite a couple of times.
>>
>> @Bert: you made some commits recently related to disk usage of the
>> test-suite. Can you summarize a bit what kinds of failures you got,
>> and what changes you made for this? And are these in 1.8.0-rc2, or
>> will they be in rc3?
>>
>> In one of your commit messages you specifically said that it should be
>> possible to run the test-suite in parallel on a 256 MB ramdisk. I
>> don't run the tests in parallel, but perhaps 128 MB has become too
>> small, even for non-parallellized test runs.
>>
>> All that said: if these spurious failures turn out to be
>> diskspace-related, I'm still a bit worried: how come I didn't see a
>> big glaring error message in the test log? But first, let's try to
>> check this hypothesis by rerunning the tests on a larger ramdisk.
>
> I usually use a 1GB ramdisk to test but don't use CLEANUP=1 since I
> have the memory and the cleanup just slows things down. It usually
> fills up around 760MB.
With my old WinXP laptop I can't really spare 1 GB of ram :-) (I only
have 3.3 available).
But, increasing it to 256MB (and using cleanup) did help: started the
testsuite yesterday evening, and haven't seen any failures (this
morning, the ra_serf tests were still running, but ra_local and ra_svn
were finished ... no failures).
Problem solved it seems.
Or do we have to worry about the failure modes of svn (or of the
testsuite) when the disk is full?
--
Johan
Received on 2013-06-06 10:28:48 CEST