[LTP] [PATCH 1/1] swapping01: make test more robust

Petr Vorel pvorel@suse.cz
Fri Jan 22 08:41:00 CET 2021


Hi Li, Alex,

> Hi Alex, Petr,

> I'm going to apply Alex's patch after a round of testing[1].
> Because giving more time waiting for swap memory to
> settle is no harm to test, at least help to get rid of failures
> observed on LPAR so far.
+1, thanks!

Reviewed-by: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>

> But I still think the swapping01 not very precise to some degree.
> We probably need to rewrite it someday but currently, I have no better idea.
+1

> [1] Running a stress-ng to eat some available memory in the
OK, maybe better way for eating memory. Thanks :).

Kind regards,
Petr

> background, then swapping01 easily hit the heavy-swap issue.
> This could be proved that it influenced by deamon allocate/free
> memory during testing.
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