From owner-freebsd-testing@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 5 15:48:09 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-testing@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 679A492 for ; Mon, 5 Jan 2015 15:48:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from relay03.pair.com (relay03.pair.com [209.68.5.17]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1CE75675DD for ; Mon, 5 Jan 2015 15:48:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 19113 invoked from network); 5 Jan 2015 15:48:01 -0000 Received: from 188.182.139.176 (HELO x2.osted.lan) (188.182.139.176) by relay03.pair.com with SMTP; 5 Jan 2015 15:48:01 -0000 X-pair-Authenticated: 188.182.139.176 Received: from x2.osted.lan (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by x2.osted.lan (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id t05Flx7r087070 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 5 Jan 2015 16:47:59 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from pho@x2.osted.lan) Received: (from pho@localhost) by x2.osted.lan (8.14.9/8.14.9/Submit) id t05FlwYp087069; Mon, 5 Jan 2015 16:47:58 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from pho) Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 16:47:58 +0100 From: Peter Holm To: Susan Stanziano Subject: Re: stress2 and results Message-ID: <20150105154758.GA87007@x2.osted.lan> 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> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <628757948.186069.1420472049026.JavaMail.zimbra@xinuos.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Cc: freebsd-testing@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-testing@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Testing on FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 15:48:09 -0000 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" > To: "Susan Stanziano" > 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 >