Re: runaway avocado

["Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@redhat.com>]

Cc'ing avocado-devel@

On 10/26/20 11:35 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> So, I somehow ended up with this process still running on my
> local machine after a (probably failed) 'make check-acceptance':
> 
> petmay01 13710 99.7  3.7 2313448 1235780 pts/16 Sl  16:10 378:00
> ./qemu-system-aarch64 -display none -vga none -chardev
> socket,id=mon,path=/var/tmp/tmp5szft2yi/qemu-13290-monitor.sock -mon
> chardev=mon,mode=control -machine virt -chardev
> socket,id=console,path=/var/tmp/tmp5szft2yi/qemu-13290-console.sock,server,nowait
> -serial chardev:console -icount
> shift=7,rr=record,rrfile=/var/tmp/avocado_iv8dehpo/avocado_job_w9efukj5/32-tests_acceptance_reverse_debugging.py_ReverseDebugging_AArch64.test_aarch64_virt/replay.bin,rrsnapshot=init
> -net none -drive
> file=/var/tmp/avocado_iv8dehpo/avocado_job_w9efukj5/32-tests_acceptance_reverse_debugging.py_ReverseDebugging_AArch64.test_aarch64_virt/disk.qcow2,if=none
> -kernel /home/petmay01/avocado/data/cache/by_location/a00ac4ae676ef0322126abd2f7d38f50cc9cbc95/vmlinuz
> -cpu cortex-a53
> 
> and it was continuing to log to a deleted file
> /var/tmp/avocado_iv8dehpo/avocado_job_w9efukj5/32-tests_acceptance_reverse_debugging.py_ReverseDebugging_AArch64.test_aarch64_virt/replay.bin
> 
> which was steadily eating my disk space and got up to nearly 100GB
> in used disk (invisible to du, of course, since it was an unlinked
> file) before I finally figured out what was going on and killed it
> about six hours later...
> 
> Any suggestions for how we might improve the robustness of the
> relevant test ?
> 
> thanks
> -- PMM
>