[openstack-dev] [all] OpenStack races piling up in the gate - please stop approving patches unless they are fixing a race condition
Derek Higgins
derekh at redhat.com
Thu Jun 5 19:59:25 UTC 2014
On 05/06/14 13:07, Sean Dague wrote:
> You may all have noticed things are really backed up in the gate right
> now, and you would be correct. (Top of gate is about 30 hrs, but if you
> do the math on ingress / egress rates the gate is probably really double
> that in transit time right now).
>
> We've hit another threshold where there are so many really small races
> in the gate that they are compounding to the point where fixing one is
> often failed by another one killing your job. This whole situation was
> exacerbated by the fact that while the transition from HP cloud 1.0 ->
> 1.1 was happening and we were under capacity, the check queue grew to
> 500 with lots of stuff being approved.
>
> That flush all hit the gate at once. But it also means that those jobs
> passed in a very specific timing situation, which is different on the
> new HP cloud nodes. And the normal statistical distribution of some jobs
> on RAX and some on HP that shake out different races didn't happen.
>
> At this point we could really use help getting focus on only recheck
> bugs. The current list of bugs is here:
> http://status.openstack.org/elastic-recheck/
Hitting that link gives a different page when compared to navigating to
the "Rechecks" tag from http://status.openstack.org and I can't find a
way to navigate to the page you linked, is this intentional?
just curious, ignore me if I'm distracting from the current issues.
>
> Also our categorization rate is only 75% so there are probably at least
> 2 critical bugs we don't even know about yet hiding in the failures.
> Helping categorize here -
> http://status.openstack.org/elastic-recheck/data/uncategorized.html
> would be handy.
>
> We're coordinating changes via an etherpad here -
> https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/gatetriage-june2014
>
> If you want to help, jumping in #openstack-infra would be the place to go.
>
> -Sean
>
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