I think TestLargeBlock fails if you have low disk space on your dev
machine -- since the drive selection algorithm needs something like 5x
block size free, and the test uses a 2G+ block size. I know it always
fails on my laptop where I tend to have 5-6G free (SSD small but worth
it!)

-Todd

On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 6:29 AM,  <milind.bhandar...@emc.com> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> When running TestLargeBlock and TestBalancer, which tend to take a long
> time to run on my dev box, I get the following error:
>
> [ERROR] Failed to execute goal
> org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.6:test (default-test) on
> project hadoop-hdfs: Error while executing forked tests.; nested exception
> is
> org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.shade.org.codehaus.plexus.util.cli.Command
> LineTimeOutException: Error while executing external command, process
> killed. Process timeout out after 900 seconds -> [Help 1]
>
> How do you set the timeout to be 1 hour instead of default 900 seconds ?
>
>
> (Other option is to buy a supercomputer as a dev environment for hadoop,
> but thought I should try asking the dev list first ;-)
>
> - milind
>
> ---
> Milind Bhandarkar
> Greenplum Labs, EMC
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>
>
>
>



-- 
Todd Lipcon
Software Engineer, Cloudera

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