[Bug 200447] Multiple time-related tests are having issues with Jenkins/Bhyve in the past few months; Jenkins/Bhyve on the cluster is non-performant/less deterministic compared to VMware Fusion 7

[Garrett Cooper]

On Jul 4, 2015, at 1:10, bugzilla-noreply at freebsd.org wrote:

> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=200447
> 
> --- Comment #6 from Garrett Cooper,425-314-3911 <ngie at FreeBSD.org> ---
> The issue has been persisting pretty regularly the past 20-30 runs. Example:
> https://jenkins.freebsd.org/job/FreeBSD_HEAD-tests/1160/console
> 
> The current implementation is a maintenance burden. I'm close to just rewriting
> the code to use vmware workstation or ESXi at this point instead of bhyve and
> host my own setup. The jenkins failure emails have been excessive lately -- I'm
> about ready to kill file all of them.

Either that or buy consumer grade SSDs, RAM, and CPUs, and have someone install them in the Jenkins cluster. My Lenovo C30/D20 workstations have little to no issues with handling similar workloads, and FWIW Isilon OneFS runs more memory/CPU intensive processes in the DEBUG VMs than FreeBSD does on GENERIC systems.
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