385752 - Perf test fails on HPUX.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(NSPR :: NSPR, defect, P3)

Description

[Slavomir Katuscak]

From nightly tests:
securitytip/20070622.1/charm.4-HP-UXB.11.11_64_OPT.OBJ

perf./runtests.sh[261]: 15543 Terminated
			FAILED

BEGIN TEST: perf

CDThread: cannot create thread 297
CDThread: cannot create thread 298
CDThread: cannot create thread 299
CDThread: cannot create thread 300

...

CDThread: cannot create thread 997
CDThread: cannot create thread 998
CDThread: cannot create thread 999
ContextSwitch: cannot create thread
ContextSwitch: cannot create thread

END TEST: perf

Comment 1

[Nelson Bolyard (seldom reads bugmail)]

If NSPR had a "test" component, this bug would get that component.

This bug, and the other NSPR bugs like it that were filed in the last few days,
seems to be a defect in the test program and/or test script itself,
or in the system configuration, rather than (or in addition to) a defect 
in the NSPR libraries.  

If there is a defect in the NSPR libraries, these test results do not 
clearly indicate that.  Many of these failures are not occurring in NSPR
test programs at all.  

Have the systems run out of some resource?  
Are they not able to start more processes because the Process table is full?  
Are the failures to start new threads due to the process table being full? 
(Does each thread have its own PID?) 

Comment 2

[Wan-Teh Chang]

This failure is specific to HP-UX.  By default a process cannot
create too many threads on HP-UX.  We used to change some HP-UX
kernel parameters to allow NSPR tests that create a lot of threads
to pass.

The proper fix is to change these tests to not create that many
threads, or to handle the "out of resources" error from PR_CreateThread
gracefully (without failing the test).

Comment 3

[Worcester12345]

WONTFIX?