So I think the timeouts are a symptom and not a problem.  I believe the
main issue is just exceeding the OS thread limit when attempting to run
several of the more strenuous parallelism tests at once.  Do skipif files
work for directories?

- Chris


On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 1:19 PM, Tom Hildebrandt <[email protected]> wrote:

>  Hi Chris:
>
> I recently updated the paratest.server script so the default timeout is
> "never".  Does that help?
> I don't think there's a blacklist feature, but you can add a skipif file
> in your workspace.  If there's an environment variable that paratest.server
> sets uniquely, you could key off of that to allow the test to run under
> start_test.
> Even with a skipif file, the test will run if you call it out explicitly:
>   start_test TooManyThreads.chpl
> .
>
> HTH,
> THH
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* Chris Wailes [[email protected]]
> *Sent:* Thursday, March 27, 2014 10:15 AM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* [Chapel-developers] Paratest and TooManyThreads.chpl
>
>   Recently, when I try and run the test suite on my machine using
> paratest.server the script will timeout when running the
> TooManyThreads.chpl test and cause the test suite to stop.  This isn't a
> problem when I run one test at a time.  Is there a way to scale back the
> number of threads that are deemed to be "too many" when running multiple
> tests at once, or to blacklist this test when running the suite through
> paratest.server?
>
>  - Chris
>
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