On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 2:01 AM, Johan Corveleyn <jcor...@gmail.com> wrote: > However, I'm wondering now if perhaps there's an issue with the size > of the ramdisk (and increased need for disk space during the tests). > My ramdisk is only 128 MB large, which has sufficed until now. Perhaps > I now need to enlarge it. I'll try increasing it to 256 MB, and > rerunning the testsuite a couple of times. > > @Bert: you made some commits recently related to disk usage of the > test-suite. Can you summarize a bit what kinds of failures you got, > and what changes you made for this? And are these in 1.8.0-rc2, or > will they be in rc3? > > In one of your commit messages you specifically said that it should be > possible to run the test-suite in parallel on a 256 MB ramdisk. I > don't run the tests in parallel, but perhaps 128 MB has become too > small, even for non-parallellized test runs. > > All that said: if these spurious failures turn out to be > diskspace-related, I'm still a bit worried: how come I didn't see a > big glaring error message in the test log? But first, let's try to > check this hypothesis by rerunning the tests on a larger ramdisk.
I usually use a 1GB ramdisk to test but don't use CLEANUP=1 since I have the memory and the cleanup just slows things down. It usually fills up around 760MB.
