432732 - have talos results be machine independant

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Release Engineering :: General, defect)

Description

[alice nodelman [:alice] [:anode]]

Currently, talos results are strongly tied to individual machines.  If we could be assured that the result of any single talos machine would be the same as that reported for the same tests on the same build on a different machine we'd be able to do some nice things like machine sharing and easier replacement of dead boxes.

We are already using images to get us to the same initial state on different boxes, but it doesn't seem to be enough to get us to totally standard results.

Comment 1

[John O'Duinn [:joduinn] (please use "needinfo?" flag)]

Results are much improved since doing auto-rebooting after each run. 

We still occasionally get a machine returning results that are drifting away from results from other machines. Typically, a complete o.s. reimage fixes this - unknown whats the cause of this.

Comment 2

[[e-mail] (:bhearsum)]

Alice sez:
14:38 < alice> bhearsum: i had though that i already closed that
14:39 < alice> we are basically already assuming that they are machine 
               independant

Comment 3

[Chris Cooper [:coop] (he/him)]

Moving closed Future bugs into Release Engineering in preparation for removing the Future component.