[Monotone-devel] buildbots

[Markus Schiltknecht]

Hi,

I promised to have a look at the buildbot results. I didn't have much 
spare time recently, but here's what I can tell up to now.

On Lapo's machines (i386-freebsd6, amd64-freebsd6) the unit test 
refiner_various_counts still fails due to lack of memory. I remember 
measuring somewhere around 50mb peak during that test on my machine 
(linux), Lapo, can you give those machines more memory? If not 
permanently, then at least to check how much memory that test would 
require on your freebsd systems?

Additionally, amd64-freebsd6 fails on these tests, all having to do with 
annotate:

 37 alias_command                                 FAIL (line 61)
 38 annotate_accidental_clean_merge               FAIL (line 59)
 41 annotate_file_whose_name_changed              FAIL (line 38)
 42 annotate_where_line_splits                    FAIL (line 54)
 43 annotate_where_lineage_depends_on_traversal   FAIL (line 53)
 44 annotate_where_one_parent_is_full_copy        FAIL (line 49)
 45 annotate_with_human_output                    FAIL (line 17)


These seem to fail for the same reason: for annotate, the argument 
'--brief' has been renamed to '--revs-only'. For some strange reason, 
however, the tests on that machine still use '--brief'. At least 
according to the logs I downloaded, see for example these lines:

> runcmd: /usr/home/bot_mtn/mtn/slave-dir/full-amd64-freebsd6/build/mtn, 
> local_redir = false, requested = nil
> alias_command:59: /usr/home/bot_mtn/mtn/slave-dir/full-amd64-freebsd6/build/mtn 
> --norc 
> --root=/usr/home/bot_mtn/mtn/slave-dir/full-amd64-freebsd6/build/tester_dir/tests/alias_command
>  
> --confdir=/usr/home/bot_mtn/mtn/slave-dir/full-amd64-freebsd6/build/tester_dir/tests/alias_command
>  --rcfile 
> /usr/home/bot_mtn/mtn/slave-dir/full-amd64-freebsd6/build/tester_dir/tests/alias_command/test_hooks.lua
>  
> --db=/usr/home/bot_mtn/mtn/slave-dir/full-amd64-freebsd6/build/tester_dir/tests/alias_command/test.db
>  --keydir 
> /usr/home/bot_mtn/mtn/slave-dir/full-amd64-freebsd6/build/tester_dir/tests/alias_command/keys
>  address@hidden praise foo --brief --rcfile=extra_rc
> stdout:
> 0a5087e6.. by tester 2007-10-25: first
> 28b894c1.. by tester 2007-10-25: second
> 0a5087e6.. by tester 2007-10-25: third
> b7831818.. by tester 2007-10-25: fourth

I'm suspecting there are local modifications, however, I don't know how 
to check that. Maybe we should add a 'mtn status' step just after 'mtn 
update' for the build slaves? Or is there another way to tell for sure 
that we are testing an unmodified revision?

Lacking any of OSX or AIX and given those bots are offline, I don't 
think it makes much sense for me to look into those logs. And the 
Windows bot on Visual Studio... well... that probably needs more work 
than I can do now anyway.

Regards

Markus