stress2 and results

[Peter Holm]

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 at holm.cc> 
> To: "Susan Stanziano" <susan.stanziano at xinuos.com> 
> Cc: freebsd-testing at 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 
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> -- 
> Peter 
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