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From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: stable trees (was: [xen-4.2-testing test] 58584:
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Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 15:22:33 +0100
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On Thu, 2015-06-18 at 12:37 +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 17.06.15 at 12:26, <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com> wrote:
> > Jan Beulich writes ("stable trees (was: [xen-4.2-testing test] 58584: 
> > regressions)"):
> >> Which leaves several options:
> >> - the problem was always there, but hidden by some factor in the
> >>   old osstest instance,
> > 
> > I think this is most likely.  The old system had much older hosts.
> > 
> > I think this is a race that we now happen to lose most of the time.
> 
> For verification purposes, would it be possible to set up a couple of
> flights on the old instance for one of the stable trees?

I can try and run something adhoc on the old system if you can let me
know exactly which jobs (test-*-*-*) and branches you are interested in.

Ian.

> >> One aspect making me indeed consider the build (or less likely
> >> runtime) aspect is that we're seeing the frequent migration failures
> >> in the stable trees only - other than unstable they're all getting built
> >> with debug=n.
> > 
> > Races frequently come and go with that kind of change.
> 
> True. Question then still is who will try to look into the issue (as
> right now it is quite harmful to the progress the stable trees can
> make towards getting pushed).
> 
> Jan
> 
> 
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