Re: kern/54687: ATF tests time out since kern_lwp.c 1.206

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/54687; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
To: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, joerg%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/54687: ATF tests time out since kern_lwp.c 1.206
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2019 10:38:26 +0100

 On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 10:41:01PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
 > (1) I can run the ipsec tests in a fresh VM in isolation and they finish
 > within 30s. That alone should be a good indicator that the problem with
 > those tests is not actually the commit here.
 
 The question is whether they used to terminate noticably faster before
 the change.
 
 Did anyone do performance tests before/after the change?
 
 > (3) We have a persistent history of RUMP stuff failing because ATF
 > doesn't properly cleanup behind failures. E.g. left-over rump_server
 > instances breaking random other tests.
 
 For the record I don't think it is ATF's fault if the test program creates
 daemon processes and does not properly clean them up on failure.
 
 But indeed this should be fixed, independently of the issue at hand.
 
 Martin