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Mihael, you were right.<div>The test hung in the 4th iteration, even though only one hour ago, it passed them all, and the site.template.xml wasn't in the directory.<br><br><div>> Subject: RE: [Swift-devel] Swift unresponsive while using local provider.<br>> From: hategan@mcs.anl.gov<br>> To: alberto_chavez@live.com<br>> CC: davidkelly999@gmail.com; swift-devel@ci.uchicago.edu<br>> Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 17:54:25 -0700<br>> <br>> On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 19:29 -0500, Alberto Chavez wrote:<br>> > I already did that in the revision I have, and the tests passed every<br>> > iteration; I am going to update my working copies to the latest svn<br>> > code, and I'll run it again.<br>> <br>> If you want to help, please hold on a second.<br>> <br>> Let me give you some background. This is a bug that doesn't happen on<br>> every run. I may stand on one foot and chant things to the god of rain,<br>> then run the test and have it run ok. Therefore I may conclude that my<br>> chanting solved the problem. But you can see how the argument is bogus.<br>> Clearly the god of rain has no bearing on computer code.<br>> <br>> So there are many things you could do after which running a script<br>> works, but the important test here is to run the same script repeatedly<br>> and see the frequency with which the problem happens.<br>> <br>> So please run the same script 100 times without updating the code from<br>> svn and report back the results.<br>> <br>> <br>> > By the way, I put sites.template.xml back, and ran the command jstack<br>> <br>> <br>> > This is the output:<br>> > <br>> > <br>> > $ jstack -l 2791<br>> <br>> And how did you come upon the number 2791?<br>> <br>> <br>> <br></div></div> </div></body>
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