Summary

async-io tests hang

Metadata

• Id: 16812fd0b10436f4b13633cd24bdc988fcf8aaea
• Trac id: 1321
• Type: defect
• Reporter: mario
• Owner:
• Cc: yarnoiserdev@gmail.com
• Status: new
• Component: unknown
• Estimated difficulty:
• Resolution:
• Priority: major
• Milestone: someday
• Version: 4.11.0
• Changetime: 2017-11-25 19:11:24 UTC
• Created: 2016-08-27 00:08:12 UTC
• Keywords: async-io, tests, salmonella

Description

See http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-users/2016-07/msg00040.html for more context.

Basically, async-io tests hang sometimes. To reproduce the issue, just run the tests repeatedly until they hang.

It was making salmonella hang on the linux machines. I installed a hack to kill the hanging test process after some time. Although the hack is in place and working, salmonella runs take longer when the test process hangs, as the hack polls to detect hanging processes.

Changes and comments

[2017-11-25 19:11:24 UTC] mario wrote:

Any update on this issue? It has been open for more than one year and since then it has been delaying tests on our CI machines.