[oi-dev] KPTI testing images and repository archive uploaded

[Aurélien Larcher]

On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 8:12 PM, Michal Nowak <mnowak at startmail.com> wrote:

> On 03/05/2018 02:32 PM, Aurélien Larcher wrote:
>
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 8:25 AM, Michal Nowak <mnowak at startmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 03/03/2018 09:13 PM, Aurélien Larcher wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> I set up this directory with testing resources:
>>
>> http://dlc-int.openindiana.org/users/aurelien/kpti/
>>
>> Live Media, Minimal Text images, and repository as p5p archive are
>> provided.
>>
>> The repository is located at:
>>
>> pkg.openindiana.org/kpti
>>
>> Let me know if you encounter any issue.
>>
>> Kind regards
>>
>> Aurélien
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> over the weekend I tested KPTI from the repository on Toshiba Satellite
>> L855 laptop (Ivy Bridge-based, has PCID). I run many tests from Phoronix
>> Test Suite 7.8 there and haven't seen any crash nor any other problem
>> (apart from the fact that some tests are not in a good shape for
>> OpenIndiana...). With regards to general use of the system, I haven't seen
>> any noticeable slowdown.
>>
> Same experience here :)
>
> I'd be interested in putting PTS to a better shape. Do you have any inital
> recipe that I could use for creating a component?
>
> Unfortunately I don't... I used source tarball from the project's website
> and manually installed required dependencies.
>
> One "old" issue is that PTS runs 32-bit binaries by default for some tests
> since it expects /usr/bin to deliver 64-bit executables.
>
> I see, that would explain why some tests from the test suite were unable
> to find some binaries (e.g. mpich).
>

MPI libraries should be loaded using module load mpich or module load
openmpi.
Most Linux distributions use a system-wide switch (like Debian
alternatives) which for MPI does not make much sense.


> I also run the KPTI images thru our openQA tests
>> <https://openqa.oi.mnowak.cz/tests/overview?distri=openindiana&version=hipster&build=20180302-KPTI&groupid=1>
>> and there's no problem, nor slowdown (I can say this from comparison with
>> older runs) as well. Host for the tests was the Ivy Bridge-based laptop.
>>
>> So far great experience. Thanks for putting those images and repos
>> together Aurélien.
>>
> :)
>
> Thanks to you for the openQA testing of the images, it is quite impressive
> :)
>
>
>> Michal
>>
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