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Gnulib’s ‘test-lock’ fails to complete on machines with >= 32 cores

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Message #8 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe <at> gmail.com>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: Gnulib’s ‘test-lock’ fails
 to complete on machines with >= 32 cores
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 11:01:16 +0200

Hi,

> This may be fixed by Gnulib commit
> 480d374e596a0ee3fed168ab42cd84c313ad3c89 (not present in

On gettext, commit 1afbcb06fded2a427b761dd1615b1e48e1e853cc seems to fix
the problem. I ran three consecutive tests :

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mathieu <at> elbruz /tmp/guix-build-gettext-next-0.19.8.1.drv-0/gettext-0.19.8.1$ time ./gettext-tools/gnulib-tests/.libs/test-lock 
Starting test_lock ... OK
Starting test_rwlock ... OK
Starting test_recursive_lock ... OK
Starting test_once ... OK

real    3m50.493s
user    31m15.128s
sys     6m15.440s

mathieu <at> elbruz /tmp/guix-build-gettext-next-0.19.8.1.drv-0/gettext-0.19.8.1$ time ./gettext-tools/gnulib-tests/.libs/test-lock 
Starting test_lock ... OK
Starting test_rwlock ... OK
Starting test_recursive_lock ... OK
Starting test_once ... OK

real    4m11.575s
user    34m10.304s
sys     6m46.288s

mathieu <at> elbruz /tmp/guix-build-gettext-next-0.19.8.1.drv-0/gettext-0.19.8.1$ time ./gettext-tools/gnulib-tests/.libs/test-lock 
Starting test_lock ... OK
Starting test_rwlock ... OK
Starting test_recursive_lock ... OK
Starting test_once ... OK

real    3m21.155s
user    27m6.328s
sys     5m27.248s
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Tests succeeds in a reasonable time and it can be backported to our
version of gettext.

However, I don't fully understand the difference between commit
1afbcb06fded2a427b761dd1615b1e48e1e853cc in gettext and commit
480d374e596a0ee3fed168ab42cd84c313ad3c89 in gnulib.

Mathieu

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