Re: [JGIT] Re: blinking test WindowCacheGetTest.testCache_TooSmallLimit

[Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>]

lördag 25 juli 2009 00:51:18 skrev "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>:
> Constantine Plotnikov <constantine.plotnikov@gmail.com> wrote:
> > The test WindowCacheGetTest.testCache_TooSmallLimit sometimes fails
> > (on less than third of runs on Windows) with the following stacktrace:
> > 
> > junit.framework.AssertionFailedError
> > at junit.framework.Assert.fail(Assert.java:47)
> > at junit.framework.Assert.assertTrue(Assert.java:20)
> > at junit.framework.Assert.assertTrue(Assert.java:27)
> > at org.spearce.jgit.lib.WindowCacheGetTest.checkLimits(WindowCacheGetTest.java:112)
> > at org.spearce.jgit.lib.WindowCacheGetTest.testCache_TooSmallLimit(WindowCacheGetTest.java:106)
> > 
> > This happens on Windows and Linux, but I do not know about
> > frequency on Linux.
> 
> I'd say the frequency on Linux is about 1/6 for me.  I have yet to
> be bothered enough to track it down, but its starting to get there.
> Maybe I'll try to look at it tomorrow.

Could it be threading-related (cache). I've never seen it on the machine where I build for
the update site and it is a single core machine, but I "this" machine that has two cores it happens, not
as offen as 1/6, but enough to annoy me a bit, perhaps 1/20. If it is related to bad synchronization
it should happen more often the more cores you have.

-- robin