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Konstantin Boudnik commented on HDFS-1310: ------------------------------------------ Using sleep intervals in tests is suboptimal at best; using them to fix race-conditioned tests is pretty bad, I'd say. Besides, the test is JUnit v3 - an unsupported old version of the framework. We are using 4.5 at the moment. Last but not least, calling {{super.tearDown()}} doesn't make _any_ sense at all because this is an empty method of the {{TestCase}} class. Loops like this {noformat} while (!done) { try { Thread.sleep(1000); } catch (InterruptedException e) { } done = true; BlockLocation[] locations = fileSys.getFileBlockLocations( fileSys.getFileStatus(name), 0, blockSize); if (locations.length < 1) { done = false; continue; } } {noformat} are begging for troubles and potential timeouts. There's no guarantee that its condition will ever be satisfied. I'd say the test needs to be refactored to JUnit v4.5 and then re-evaluated to see if the timeouts still occur. > TestFileConcurrentReader fails > ------------------------------ > > Key: HDFS-1310 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-1310 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: Test > Affects Versions: 0.22.0 > Reporter: Suresh Srinivas > > For details of test failure see > http://hudson.zones.apache.org/hudson/job/Hdfs-Patch-h2.grid.sp2.yahoo.net/218/testReport/ -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.