[openstack-dev] [gate] RFC dropping largeops tests
gordon chung
gord at live.ca
Wed Feb 10 13:39:30 UTC 2016
makes sense to me. thanks for concise update and tracking this.
On 10/02/2016 7:59 AM, Davanum Srinivas wrote:
> +1 from me
>
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 7:56 AM, Jay Pipes <jaypipes at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 02/10/2016 07:33 AM, Sean Dague wrote:
>>>
>>> The largeops tests at this point are mostly finding out that some of our
>>> new cloud providers are slow - http://tinyurl.com/j5u4nf5
>>>
>>> This is fundamentally a performance test, with timings having been tuned
>>> to pass 98% of the time on two clouds that were very predictable in
>>> performance. We're now running on 4 clouds, and the variance between
>>> them all, and between every run on each can be as much as a factor of 2.
>>>
>>> We could just bump all the timeouts again, but that's basically the same
>>> thing as dropping them.
>>>
>>> These tests are not instrumented in a way that any real solution can be
>>> addressed in most cases. Tests without a path forward, that are failing
>>> good patches a lot, are very much the kind of thing we should remove
>>> from the system.
>>
>>
>> +1 from me.
>>
>> -jay
>>
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