[webkit-dev] Defaulting --exit-after-n-failures to 0

Ryosuke Niwa rniwa at webkit.org
Fri Jun 8 12:31:47 PDT 2012


On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Ojan Vafai <ojan at chromium.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa at webkit.org> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Ojan Vafai <ojan at chromium.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> We'll still default --exit-after-n-crashes-or-timeouts to 20. That seems
>>> more useful to me since you'd rarely hit this case locally and want to
>>> continue running tests.
>>>
>>
>> We should also increase this number. Non-chromium bots hit this limit all
>> the time, and it's one of most frequent complaints about
>> new-run-webkit-tests.
>>
>
> I have no objection to upping this number. We picked 20 fairly
> arbitrarily. I think we picked it to match the number that the
> build.webkit.org bots were using at the time. That said, every
> non-chromium bot is passing in 20 via the commandline as best I can tell,
> so changing the default won't change anything there. Is it really true that
> non-chromium bots are hitting this frequently?
>

Yes, particularly in debug builds. Jessie can tell you all the glory story
about how she had to disable lots of tests to make Windows bots work :(

- Ryosuke
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