[darcs-users] Darcs 2.4 - performance testing (stage 0)

[Petr Rockai]

Hi,

Nathan Gray <kolibrie at graystudios.org> writes:
> In another terminal I investigated a little bit.  It looks like
> 'darcs unpull' is hanging:
>
>   $ date
>   Tue Dec 29 16:29:33 EST 2009
>
>   $ ps ax|grep darcs
>   5311 pts/0    S+     0:17 darcs-benchmark /home/kolibrie/bin/darcs-2.3.1 /home/kolibrie/bin/darcs
>   6136 pts/0    Sl+    0:21 /home/kolibrie/bin/darcs-2.3.1 unpull --last 1000 --all +RTS -sdarcs-stats -RTS
>
>   $ uptime
>   16:29:31 up  1:05,  3 users,  load average: 0.10, 0.32, 0.47
I have seen this happen (actually, it happens on buildbot as well, and
it doesn't happen on my laptop...), too. The question is what's going
wrong... On the buildbot, I haven't noticed any hanging darcs
processes. I am starting to suspect, that darcs is waiting for some user
input in that case. It could be the "this will make unrevert impossible"
one, but I don't see anything in the benchmark code that could produce
one and there is none in the tarballs. Also, it should be reproducible
that way.

> Any ideas what I should do, besides kill it?
If you could find out what that hanging darcs process is doing (strace
-p is your friend), that'd be great. Also, running that command manually
could help to find out: go to _playground/repo and run darcs-2.3.1
unpull --last 1000 --all.

Thanks,
   Petr.