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Re: [PATCH] Increase timeout on gdb.base/exitsignal.exp
- From: Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj at redhat dot com>
- To: Peter Schauer <peterschauer at gmx dot net>
- Cc: palves at redhat dot com (Pedro Alves), gdb-patches at sourceware dot org (GDB Patches)
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 15:13:14 -0400
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Increase timeout on gdb.base/exitsignal.exp
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On Tuesday, August 25 2015, Peter Schauer wrote:
>> I still don't think we should just bump the timeout for this without
>> understanding it better. It very much looks like to me there's
>> a bug somewhere. I see that it sometimes fails on the x86 buildbots too:
>>
>> http://gdb-build.sergiodj.net/builders/Fedora-x86_64-native-extended-gdbserver-m32/builds/1805
>
> The timeout could be caused by Fedora ABRT processing.
>
> What are you getting from
> cat /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern
> on the build slaves and on your local machines ?
Hm, that may be the reason indeed. We're only seeing this on Fedora.
/proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern indeed invokes
/usr/libexec/abrt-hook-ccpp, which may be causing this since the
machines are generally under heavy load.
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