> On May 18, 2017, at 12:54 PM, Pushkar N Kulkarni via swift-dev 
> <swift-...@swift.org> wrote:
> 
> Over the past few months, we've seen random and intermittent failures in the 
> URLSession tests in TestFoundation in the CI builds running on Ubuntu 16.04. 
> Surprisingly, these failures never occur on PR builds. We've tried to 
> reproduce them locally (on matching Ubuntu levels) and fixed locally observed 
> issues, assuming those were the issues that broke the CI. 
> 
> However, the tests continue to intermittently fail in the CI and we seemed to 
> have reached a point where we simply aren't able to reproduce these failures 
> locally - we tried 2/4/16CPU with 8G/16G memory running Ubuntu 16.04 on bare 
> metal. Even if we are able to reproduce, as is in the case of a segfault, 
> there's no way to ascertain that the local failures have the same causes (e.g 
> backtrace for a segfault) as the ones in the CI. 
> 
> I have two questions in this context:
> 1. Is there a way to collect failure data from the CI environment - core 
> dumps on a crash or thread stacks on a timeout (I don't think XCTest helps) ? 
Please send me email with build you are seeing failure with, and where on the 
system the core dump is located.
> 2. Is there a way to obtain more information about the environment - is it 
> virtualised, # of CPU cores, memory size, CPU/memory available for each 
> build, what's the load (CPU/memory utilisation)? 
I updated the CI Jobs to display following info for each build.  Please let me 
know if you would like see additional info.

========================
OS Info: 

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 16.10
Release:        16.10
Codename:       yakkety

CPU Info: 

CPU op-mode(s):        32-bit, 64-bit
CPU(s):                48
Thread(s) per core:    2
Core(s) per socket:    12
Socket(s):             2
CPU family:            6
CPU MHz:               2600.000
CPU max MHz:           2600.0000
CPU min MHz:           1200.0000

Free: 

              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:       65860844     3029364    48991112       47452    13840368    62111280
Swap:        999420      271228      728192

Uptime: 

 19:39:19 up 195 days,  1:51,  0 users,  load average: 18.37, 25.89, 42.99

Number of executors: 4
========================

https://ci.swift.org/job/oss-swift-incremental-RA-linux-ubuntu-16_10/3733/consoleFull

Thanks,
Mishal Shah
> 
> In general, I'd be really helpful to have some suggestions about how to go 
> about debugging failures that are being observed ONLY in the CI.
> 
> Thanks!
> Pushkar N Kulkarni,
> IBM Runtimes
> 
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