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 > (Disclaimer: Opinions expressed in this email are those of the author, and > do not necessarily represent the views of any organization, past or > present, the author might be affiliated with.) > > > > -- Todd Lipcon Software Engineer, Cloudera