Yes, CircleCI is typically used by most people that I know. I am not sure how 
the official builds are produced but I believe they're produced on the ASF 
infrastructure.

Thank you for creating the ticket. 

Dinesh

> On Mar 24, 2019, at 6:31 PM, Stefan Miklosovic 
> <stefan.mikloso...@instaclustr.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks Dinesh,
> 
> I ve created a ticket for that (1). Would be nice to hear what other people
> think indeed.
> 
> Does anybody actually run dtests on some more powerful setup and how much
> time does it all take for people? Is the CircleCI the only environment
> dtests are run in their entirety?
> 
> (1) https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-15061
> 
> On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 at 16:37, Dinesh Joshi <djos...@icloud.com.invalid>
> wrote:
> 
>> My replies are inline –
>> 
>>> On Mar 21, 2019, at 9:00 PM, Stefan Miklosovic <
>> stefan.mikloso...@instaclustr.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> the problem with the current dtests is that, ironically, when you run
>> them
>>> on too powerful machine as it is in my case, it generates so much stress
>>> via cassandra-stress tool for some tests that these nodes become
>>> unresponsive and they are killed so test can not proceed.
>> 
>> We recently ran into similar issues while trying to fix some dtests so
>> this is not entirely surprising.
>> 
>>> So in general I see three fixes:
>>> 
>>> 1) Increase memory per node to something sensible, at least 1G, more is
>>> better
>>> 2) Fix the test in such way that I does not timeout even with 512M per
>> node
>>> 3) Run tests on machine with 8 cores and 16 GB as you do but that seems
>> to
>>> be like a stupid idea in general
>> 
>> I think the objective here is to get the tests as stable and fast as
>> possible. I haven't dug into this particular test so I can't say which
>> option would be the best but JIRAs are usually the best place to have such
>> discussions in the context of a patch.
>> 
>>> I can imagine this will be the issue for a lot of tests and by increasing
>>> the memory per node we could get rid of a lot problems. I was briefly
>>> checking where the memory is set in dtests per node but without success.
>> I
>>> think its job of ccm. Is there a simple way how to increase memory per
>> node
>>> in dtests?
>> 
>> I believe ccm start accepts jvm_args as an argument that would allow you
>> to specify arbitrary JVM args. Give that a try.
>> 
>> We should be judicious with such changes as it may have further
>> destabilizing effects but don't let that stop you from opening JIRAs or
>> opening PRs to fix issues. Please nudge folks in the dev list, IRC and
>> JIRAs to have them reviewed. I know I have one of your tickets already in
>> my queue and I will get to it soon :)
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Dinesh
>> 
>> 
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