[Cdash] Upload to CDash fails for huge tests amount

[Julien Jomier]

Hi Miroslav,

Are you running CDash with Asynchronous submissions? 
($CDASH_ASYNCHRONOUS_SUBMISSION=true in the config.local.php)

If not that might be the issue,
Julien

On 15/05/2014 09:16, Matějů Miroslav, Ing. wrote:
> Hello there,
>
> I’ve got a problem with the upload from CTest to CDash. I have many test
> suites (considered as named builds for CDash), each of them with several
> tests. The update info is not transferred to CDash for some test suites
> with a huge amount of tests. To give you an idea what “huge amount”
> means: There is currently being a transfer to new hardware for both the
> CTest and CDash machines. For the older HW, it means more than 1000, and
> about 10000 for the newer one.
>
> Some useful info can be found in LastSubmit_*.log on the CTest machine
> (I shortened it where I put “< >” marks):
>
> Upload files:
>
> 0       Build.xml
>
> 1       Configure.xml
>
> 2       Coverage.xml
>
> 3       CoverageLog-0.xml
>
> 4       DynamicAnalysis.xml
>
> 5       Notes.xml
>
> 6       Test.xml
>
> 7       Update.xml
>
> Using drop method: http
>
>          Upload file: <0 to 5>
>
>          Upload file: /<mypath>/Testing/20140514-0000/Test.xml to
> <machine>___<build>___20140514-0000-Nightly___XML___Test.xml
>
>     Error when uploading file: /<mypath>/Testing/20140514-0000/Test.xml
>
>     Error message was: Operation too slow. Less than 1 bytes/sec
> transferred the last 120 seconds
>
>     Problems when submitting via HTTP
>
> <END OF FILE>
>
> Although CTest complains about sending Test.xml, it seems to be
> transferred completely. The tests (including the last ones) present in
> this file are shown correctly in CDash as well as configure, build,
> coverage etc. However, it does not seem to even try to upload Update.xml
> and there is no update info shown in CDash accordingly.
>
> I tried to enable repeated sending to CDash using
>
> CTEST_SUBMIT(RETRY_COUNT 10)
>
> in the CTest script. The only result was an overloaded CDash server and
> even more upload errors.
>
> Could you give me any hints what can I do to correct this issue? Or is
> it a bug which has to be corrected in the CDash itself? I’m running
> CTest 2.8.7 and sending results to CDash 2.0.2.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Miroslav Matějů
>
>
>
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