Damien
you can use -Dsurefire-forkcount=1 in order to run only one test at a time.
This should reduce flakiness

Enrico

Il giorno gio 3 set 2020 alle ore 21:37 Damien Diederen <
ddiede...@sinenomine.net> ha scritto:

>
> Hi Enrico, all,
>
> TL;DR: Builds of 3.6.2 pass with 8 (!) cores on Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04, and
> NixOS 20.03.
>
>
> I wrote:
>
> >> It took me a number of tries, because that is a VM and the tests are
> >> somewhat flaky in that environment.
>
> You suggested:
>
> > On 3.6.2 I don't see flaky tests in my local environment,
> > can you please start another email thread with your problems ?
> > They will deserve JIRA issues and investigations
>
> Okay; I did a bit more experimentation.
>
> As I mentioned, the builds which exhibited flakiness were run in a VM.
> That was not a "weak" VM, however: KVM, 4 cores, 16 GiB, backed by an
> Intel i7 CPU.
>
> I notably tried with an Ubuntu live DVD and builds on /tmp (tmpfs).
> Using "only" 4 cores results in frequent failures, but allocating 8
> cores to the VM seemingly allows builds to SUCCEED.
>
> I don't know if 8 cores is considered a reasonable requirement for the
> test suite.
>
>
> I also tried on a (real) NixOS laptop with 8 logical processors and 16
> GiB of RAM; that build passed.  Which means that so far, I have seen
> builds succeed on:
>
>   * Ubuntu 20.04;
>   * Ubuntu 18.04;
>   * NixOS 20.03.
>
>
> In that previous email, I also wrote:
>
> >> this is, as far as I know, a long-standing issue and completely
> >> unrelated to 3.6.2.
>
> I have experienced frequent failures when building 3.6.1 with tests on a
> 6-core Xeon with 64 GiB RAM.  That machine plays the role of a shared
> "build server," so other users can cause varying utilization.  But
> still, it is no slouch, and utilization was relatively low when I
> observed these issues—so I was a bit surprised to see such failures.
>
>
> I guess I should try building master on these various configurations (I
> haven't seen that kind of trouble there).
>
>
> Best,
> Damien
>
>
> P.-S. — For the record, here is the procedure I used (starting from the
> bare live Ubuntu DVD):
>
>     sudo add-apt-repository universe
>
>     sudo apt install \
>         autoconf \
>         build-essential \
>         git \
>         libcppunit-dev \
>         libsasl2-dev \
>         libtool-bin \
>         maven \
>         openjdk-11-jdk-headless \
>         pkg-config
>
>     rsync -av --delete /mnt/zookeeper/ /tmp/zookeeper/
>     cd /tmp/zookeeper
>
>     export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-amd64
>
>     LC_ALL=C mvn install -Pfull-build 2>&1 |
>         tee /mnt/ubuntu-mvn-tests.log
>
>
> And here is an example of failure—clearly a time out:
>
>     [ERROR]
> testJvmPauseMonitorExceedWarnThreshold(org.apache.zookeeper.server.util.JvmPauseMonitorTest)
> Time elapsed: 5.119 s  <<< ERROR!
>     org.junit.runners.model.TestTimedOutException: test timed out after
> 5000 milliseconds
>         at
> app//org.apache.zookeeper.server.util.JvmPauseMonitorTest.testJvmPauseMonitorExceedWarnThreshold(JvmPauseMonitorTest.java:54)
>
>
> Here is another example, somewhat more murky (possibly related to some
> kind of race condition):
>
>     [ERROR]
> testWatchAutoResetWithPending(org.apache.zookeeper.test.WatcherTest)  Time
> elapsed: 0.083 s  <<< FAILURE!
>     java.lang.AssertionError: Unexpected bean exists! expected:<0> but
> was:<1>
>         at org.apache.zookeeper.test.WatcherTest.setUp(WatcherTest.java:84)
>
>
> I can provide more logs if we decide to open a ticket to track this topic.
>
>
>
>
> >> Il giorno mer 2 set 2020 alle ore 20:42 Damien Diederen <
> >> ddiede...@sinenomine.net> ha scritto:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Hi Enrico, all,
> >>>
> >>> I was also able to build and successfully run the tests of this release
> >>> candidate on Ubuntu 20.04.1, with the provided Java & Maven:
> >>>
> >>>     $ grep VERSION= /etc/os-release
> >>>     VERSION="20.04.1 LTS (Focal Fossa)"
> >>>     $ java -version
> >>>     openjdk version "11.0.8" 2020-07-14
> >>>     $ mvn -version
> >>>     Apache Maven 3.6.3
> >>>
> >>> (It took me a number of tries, because that is a VM and the tests are
> >>> somewhat flaky in that environment.  But this is, as far as I know, a
> >>> long-standing issue and completely unrelated to 3.6.2.  Please let me
> >>> know if you have tips/tricks for avoiding such temporary failures.)
> >>>
> >>> Cheers, -D
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Szalay-Bekő Máté <szalay.beko.m...@gmail.com> writes:
> >>> > +1 (non-binding)
> >>> >
> >>> > - I built the source code (-Pfull-build) on Ubuntu 18.04.3 using
> OpenJDK
> >>> > 8u242, OpenJDK 11.0.8 and maven 3.6.0.
> >>> > - all the unit tests passed (both Java and C-client).
> >>> > - I also built and executed unit tests for zkpython
> >>> > - checkstyle and spotbugs passed
> >>> > - apache-rat passed
> >>> > - owasp (CVE check) passed
> >>> > - fatjar built (-Pfatjar)
> >>> >
> >>> > On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 11:35 AM Enrico Olivelli <eolive...@gmail.com
> >
> >>> wrote:
> >>> >
> >>> >> This is a release candidate for 3.6.2.
> >>> >>
> >>> >> It is a minor release and it fixes a few critical issues and brings
> a
> >>> few
> >>> >> dependencies upgrades.
> >>> >>
> >>> >> The full release notes is available at:
> >>> >>
> >>> >>
> >>>
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12310801&version=12347809
> >>> >>
> >>> >> *** Please download, test and vote by September 4th 2020, 23:59
> UTC+0.
> >>> ***
> >>> >>
> >>> >> Source files:
> >>> >> https://people.apache.org/~eolivelli/zookeeper-3.6.2-candidate-0/
> >>> >>
> >>> >> Maven staging repo:
> >>> >>
> >>>
> https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachezookeeper-1060/
> >>> >>
> >>> >> The release candidate tag in git to be voted upon: release-3.6.2-0
> >>> >> https://github.com/apache/zookeeper/tree/release-3.6.2-0
> >>> >>
> >>> >> ZooKeeper's KEYS file containing PGP keys we use to sign the
> release:
> >>> >> https://www.apache.org/dist/zookeeper/KEYS
> >>> >>
> >>> >> The staging version of the website is:
> >>> >>
> >>>
> https://people.apache.org/~eolivelli/zookeeper-3.6.2-candidate-0/website/
> >>> >>
> >>> >> Should we release this candidate?
> >>> >>
> >>> >> Enrico Olivelli
> >>> >>
> >>>
>

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