[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 52876] Chromium DRT should provide option to clear page resources between tests

Fri Jan 21 10:05:09 PST 2011

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52876

--- Comment #6 from Tony Chang <tony at chromium.org>  2011-01-21 10:05:09 PST ---
(In reply to comment #0)
> For now Chromium DRT loads the next test directly after the previous test. Resources used by the previous test that are not GC'ed yet has potential influence on the next test, increasing the chance of flakyness.
> 
> For example, on an embedded system the number of active GL contexts has a small limit. When running the webgl tests in batch, the GL contexts allocated by the previous test may cause some later test fails to allocate a GL context.

Why do the later tests fail?  Are they timing out because they can't GC or are the running out of contexts?  Do we need to be smarter about running GC when we have a few GL contexts on a low memory device?

Is this a problem for the other DRTs (e.g., on Mac)?

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