[Swift-devel] Swift unresponsive while using local provider.

[Alberto Chavez]

Mihael, you were right.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.

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