From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3545 invoked by alias); 12 Mar 2004 22:21:12 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 3518 invoked from network); 12 Mar 2004 22:21:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO takamaka.act-europe.fr) (142.179.108.108) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 12 Mar 2004 22:21:10 -0000 Received: by takamaka.act-europe.fr (Postfix, from userid 507) id 65E6047D62; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 14:21:10 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 22:21:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: [RFA/testsuite] Some feedback about bigcore.exp... Message-ID: <20040312222110.GF1135@gnat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="IS0zKkzwUGydFO0o" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-SW-Source: 2004-03.o/txt/msg00290.txt Message-ID: <20040312222100.Z2djUHFXorth44kFFfr4Gi0-3Fcn3GtBMo_IT9o9H6A@z> --IS0zKkzwUGydFO0o Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-length: 962 Hello, Just FYI, in case others may feel the same way? We have now run this test pretty much on most of our Unix native platforms, and have found that the bigcore.exp testcase is usually quite stressful for the host where the testing is being conducted. For instance, on sparc-solaris, the system ran out of virtual memory and swap space, and started killing processes at random. It also requires a very large amount of disk space to be available for the core file (2GB on x86-linux). So I was told by other fellow machine users to please stop running this test on our build machines. One thing I would recommend is to delete the core file once the test is finished. I had a testsuite run that got ruined because the core file filled up all my disk, and left no space available for the rest of the run... 2004-03-12 J. Brobecker * gdb.base/bigcore.exp: Delete core file after test has completed. Sounds reasonable? -- Joel --IS0zKkzwUGydFO0o Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="bigcore.exp" Content-length: 506 Index: bigcore.exp =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/bigcore.exp,v retrieving revision 1.4 diff -u -r1.4 bigcore.exp --- bigcore.exp 27 Feb 2004 16:48:03 -0000 1.4 +++ bigcore.exp 12 Mar 2004 22:17:59 -0000 @@ -190,3 +190,7 @@ check_heap next $next_heap check_heap prev $prev_heap + +# The generated core file uses a large amount of disk-space, so we +# delete it now that we're done. +remote_exec build "rm -f $corefile" --IS0zKkzwUGydFO0o--