From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Jackson Subject: Re: [PATCH OSSTEST v4 00/25] add distro domU testing flight Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2015 12:21:26 +0100 Message-ID: <21789.9782.751884.556496@mariner.uk.xensource.com> References: <1427966183.4037.17.camel@citrix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1427966183.4037.17.camel@citrix.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Ian Campbell Cc: longtaox.pang@intel.com, xen-devel List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Ian Campbell writes ("[Xen-devel] [PATCH OSSTEST v4 00/25] add distro domU testing flight"): > The failures mainly seem to be some sort of proxy issue returning old > data (similar to what used to happen to mg-debian-installer-update), Maybe we can set up an explicit proxy which actually works. I guess that might need negotiation with Citrix corporate IT. Luckily the new colo is not affected by anything like this. > On a small number I see "The installer failed to download a file from > the mirror." messages, which might be the cache/proxy or might be an > actual Debian issue. Hrm. I find these vague error messages exceptionally frustrating (debootstrap has this problem too). > The -raw tests all failed due to a timeout doing: > dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/lib/xen/images/debian/disk.raw bs=1M count=10000 > > I'm unclear if it timed out after 30 (as the code seems to say) or 60 > (as the logs seem to say) but either way something obviously needs > adjusting. I just tried it on my local test box and it took 1m20s and > reported 130 MB/s. I've appended an as yet untested patch which assumed > 100 MB/s and calculates a timeout from that. Do you intend to fold that patch in ? > I could switch to using "count=1 seek=10000" to create a sparse file, > which should be pretty much instantaneous, but allocating the whole > backing file seemed like a good idea. Right. Thanks, Ian.