Bug 183385

Summary: MEMORY2 test unusable on very large memory systems
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Ready Certification Tests Reporter: Doug Chapman <dchapman>
Component: memoryAssignee: Will Woods <wwoods>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Will Woods <wwoods>
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Version: 2CC: hcp-admin, richardl
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Fixed In Version: RHBA-2006-0278 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Doug Chapman 2006-02-28 19:37:08 UTC 
Description of problem:

The MEMORY2 test of the hardware certification is unusable on large (1TB RAM)
systems due to the runtime.  The problem has been narrowed down to the "memsize"
utility from lmbench.  This utility has exponential time scaling.  At the
current rate it will take 9 days of testing just to determine the amount of
memory the rest of the tests should use.

I have been discussing this with Will Woods however this is being filed to
document the issue.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2

How reproducible:
every time

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Comment 3 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-05-08 13:39:46 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2006-0284.html
Comment 4 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-05-08 13:40:33 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2006-0278.html