Re: fftwf tests running for 25+ hours - is this normal?

[Bengt Richter]

On +2019-10-14 20:46:01 -0700, Chris Marusich wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been trying to reconfigure my system on my x200 laptop.  It's been
> a day or two, and I've found that my computer has spent the last 25
> hours running fftwf tests.  I know my laptop is rather weak (2 cores, 8
> GB of memory, an SSD) compared to most desktops today, but still, 25
> hours seems pretty long.
> 
> Guix is running
> 
>   make check -j 2
> 
> which ultimately calls
> 
>   perl -w ./check.pl -r -c=30 -v --nthreads=2 
> /tmp/guix-build-fftwf-3.3.8.drv-0/fftw-3.3.8/tests/bench
> 
> which calls
> 
>   /tmp/guix-build-fftwf-3.3.8.drv-0/fftw-3.3.8/tests/.libs/bench -o 
> nthreads=2 --verbose=1 --verify //obcd34320 [... a lot of arguments ...]
> 
> Despite the fact that "-j 2" was provided to make, only 1 CPU is pegged
> at 100% utilization.  I suppose I'll just wait and see what happens, but
> 25 hours feels very long.  It seems on ci.guix.gnu.org, the build times
> are generally less than 1 hour:
> 
>   https://ci.guix.gnu.org/search?query=fftwf
> 
> Is this normal, or should I kill the build and try again?  What kind of
> system is ci.guix.gnu.org building on (how many cores, how much memory)?
> 
> -- 
> Chris

Hi Chris,

Have you checked sensors for overheating that might induce CPU clock throttling?

That happened to me when I did guix pull; guix upgrade; and it got to doing 
racket,
which started out fast, but got really slow -- though it did finally crawl 
across
the finish line, and cooled off.

I guess it would show up in dmesg or journalctl -xe but I didn't look, sorry.

HTH
--
Regards,
Bengt Richter