Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 16:47:58 +0100 From: Peter Holm <peter@holm.cc> To: Susan Stanziano <susan.stanziano@xinuos.com> Cc: freebsd-testing@freebsd.org Subject: Re: stress2 and results Message-ID: <20150105154758.GA87007@x2.osted.lan> In-Reply-To: <628757948.186069.1420472049026.JavaMail.zimbra@xinuos.com> References: <1483465851.167787.1420210296594.JavaMail.zimbra@xinuos.com> <1280099785.167983.1420211314788.JavaMail.zimbra@xinuos.com> <20150102205418.GC2787@x2.osted.lan> <628757948.186069.1420472049026.JavaMail.zimbra@xinuos.com>
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On Mon, Jan 05, 2015 at 10:34:09AM -0500, Susan Stanziano wrote: Great! Feel free to contact me, if you run into issues. - Peter > Thanks, Peter. I'm going to run the regression tests in /misc today. > > Susan > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Peter Holm" <peter@holm.cc> > To: "Susan Stanziano" <susan.stanziano@xinuos.com> > Cc: freebsd-testing@freebsd.org > Sent: Friday, January 2, 2015 3:54:18 PM > Subject: Re: stress2 and results > > On Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 10:08:34AM -0500, Susan Stanziano wrote: > > Happy New Year, everyone: > > > > On Dec. 22, Andy Zhang asked some questions about stress2 which I also had but no one has responded yet so I'll ask mine: > > > > I've read the available doc (two .pdf files) but don't see how to understand results or where to find results. It looks like there are no > > created result files. Is this correct? So, is the goal to see a panic and then de-bug the panic? > > > > Yes, that's right. > > > I've run the suite on a VM here and am at Loop #1118 now (about 48 hours). The system gets low on resources at various times but hasn't panic'd yet. > > > > What is the accepted way to interpret this situation? I would like to make this suite a useful part of our testing effort here, but I need > > to undestand the intended goals. > > > > The primary goal is to crash the kernel. If running the tests for a > long time does not cause a panic, that is often interpreted as > "success". A different view is that the test suite is broken :) > > Look at the (regression) tests in stress2/misc, and run them by > ./all.sh -o > > This should take some 36 hours on modern hardware. Remember to add > a swap disk, as many of the tests rely on VM pressure. > > > Thanks, > > Susan Stanziano > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-testing@freebsd.org mailing list > > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-testing > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-testing-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > -- > Peter >
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