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.
Received on 2013-06-06 09:09:09 CEST