Re: GNUnet build failure on mips64el

[Ludovic Courtès]

Andreas Enge <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 04:31:17PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> > We were discussing this yesterday on the IRC.  It looks like the tests
>> > are timing out due to hydra being slow.  I tested this on my machine and
>> > 2 other X86_64s and they did well.
>> Indeed, it built fine on my x86_64 machine.
>
> The same holds for Qt - its build times out after 2 hours, when it is simply
> not finished. Could we raise the timeout on hydra?

IIUC the code, there’s not absolute timeout by default, only a
timeout-on-silence.  Which one do we hit here?

> Another thing: We have "four cores" (I suppose actually two hyperthreaded
> ones) on hydra. On my machine, "top" shows four times 100%. On hydra, I get
> the impression that only one core is working. Is this normal (due to outside
> load, maybe), or do we need to tweak something?

It’s supposed to use all the cores.  What makes you think only one core
is used?

Thanks,
Ludo’.