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Re: recent buildbot fuzz failures
From: Evan Huus <eapache () gmail com>
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 11:38:16 -0500
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Gerald Combs <gerald () wireshark org> wrote:
On 1/23/13 7:46 PM, Jeff Morriss wrote:Hi Gerald, The buildbot's been generating a lot of fuzz failure bugs recently--none of which I've been able to reproduce in any of the supported trunks (Valgrind is silent too). Any idea what's going on? The last fuzz failure log says this (which doesn't make sense):/home/wireshark/menagerie/menagerie/9460-test.pcap: (-nVxr) (-nr) OK ls: cannot access /dev/shm/buildbot/clangcodeanalysis/menagerie-fuzz/fuzz-*.pcap: No such file or directoryIn order to improve performance and reduce the I/O load I've been using /dev/shm (which uses tmpfs) as the temporary directory for fuzzing. However, it looks like the contents of /dev/shm disappear and reappear periodically. The buildbots complain about missing files but when I check they're there. I'm not sure what's causing it. Maybe a cron job or daemon periodically clobbers and un-clobbers /dev/shm? I moved fuzzing to its own mount point. Hopefully Buildbot will stop complaining.
Another thing perhaps worth trying is to invert the loop over passes with the loop over files. Instead of fuzzing each file once and then starting over, it would do the first file n times, then the second file n times, etc. which would mean that each file is hot in cache for all but the first pass. Cheers, Evan ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <wireshark-dev () wireshark org> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:wireshark-dev-request () wireshark org?subject=unsubscribe
Current thread:
- recent buildbot fuzz failures Jeff Morriss (Jan 23)
- Re: recent buildbot fuzz failures Gerald Combs (Jan 24)
- Re: recent buildbot fuzz failures Evan Huus (Jan 27)
- Re: recent buildbot fuzz failures Gerald Combs (Jan 24)