[webkit-dev] The http tests are very flaky

[Eric Seidel]

I finally have a theory:
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55164

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Michael Nordman <michaeln at google.com> wrote:
> lighttpd+cgiphp is not super reliable... i think that accounts for
> some amount of chromium's http test flakiness on windows.
>
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Julie Parent <jparent+webkit at gmail.com> wrote:
>> For Chromium, the http tests aren't very flaky on Mac (I see only 5 flaky
>> http tests).  Windows, however, is another story.
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Ojan Vafai <ojan at chromium.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 11:10 PM, Eric Seidel <eric at webkit.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Looking at the Chromium Flakiness dashboard (which has results going
>>>> back for months!) we see that many of the same http tests are flaky
>>>> for chromium too:
>>>> http://test-results.appspot.com/dashboards/flakiness_dashboard.html
>>>>
>>>> I believe they use a different http server (lighttpd, but my
>>>> information could be old?) and certainly a separate network stack.
>>>
>>> We use lighttpd only on Windows. It's been on our long-term TODO list to
>>> use apache on Windows again, but getting it to work on Vista/Win7 has proven
>>> tricky.
>>> Ojan
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