Re: gpsd | Pipeline #200139571 has failed for master | 71f2b070

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Bernd!

On Wed, 14 Oct 2020 20:25:54 +0200
Bernd Zeimetz <bernd@bzed.de> wrote:

> On 10/10/20 12:10 AM, James Browning wrote:
> 
> > Specifically no. I would guess that the hardware for the runner is
> > underpowered, misutilized, and/or overloaded. Given that GCP and
> > presumably as a result GitLab runners now support FreeBSD it might
> > be time to move the runner to the cloud. The result would probably
> > be more complicated but brisker running. That portion is out of my
> > range. I think bzed set it up.  
> 
> The question is: why is it so slow now?

Almost of the CI time appears to be just building the test image, not the
tests.  Fix that big problem, not the problem you want to fix.

> Looking at the logs this is the case since:
> 
> https://gitlab.com/gpsd/gpsd/-/commit/889bd055ea513249f468730579d6eeaef4c51ec9

Which fixed persistent FreeBSD failures.  There is some serious flaw
in the FreeBSD kernel.  Slow, or correct, choose one.

> Nothing that is fixable with CPU power or whatever else.
> Just by fixing the crap that needs WRITE_PAD at all.

You, and everyone else, wants that.  Care to take a stab at it?

RGDS
GARY
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