[Insight-developers] CDash Status Update Please?

[Bill Lorensen]

Bill,

Thanks for the update. The move to a bigger, newer machine is a positive move.

We will be patient.

I'll send another note to the developers list to hold off merges to
master until the upgrade is complete.

Bill


On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Bill Hoffman <bill.hoffman at kitware.com> wrote:
> On 7/12/2011 1:11 PM, Bill Lorensen wrote:
>>
>> Folks,
>>
>> The database was down again this morning but now seems to be up.
>>
>> Yesterday we had over 230 commits (thanks to the gerrit-aton mostly),
>> but today's dashboard is still empty.
>>
>> 1) Do we understand why the database is disconnecting? CDash has been
>> highly reliable for a long time. What has changed?
>
> Sadly, nothing has changed... (it has gotten bigger, but not that much
> bigger).
>>
>> 2) I assume that cdash is trying to catch up. Any estimates when this
>> might happen?
>
> We have disabled cdash for the moment, see below.
>>
>> 3) Gerrit robot builds are not showing up, I assume that this s
>> related to the cdash problems?
>
> Yes, that is related.
>>
>> I suggest that we hold off on new merges to master until things settle
>> down.
>>
>
> We are moving the CDash DB to a new machine.  So, CDash has been taken
> offline totally during the move.  We are not exactly sure why it went down.
>  We are hoping that moving it to a new more powerful machine will fix the
> issues we are seeing.  It will at a minimum remove contention with Gerrit as
> a source of the problem.  The DB is 130Gigs for CDash right now, and we are
> waiting for mysqldump to create a backup that we can import on the new
> server.  We hope to have it up in the next 4 hours.
>
> Sorry for the delay, we have been working very hard to get things going as
> soon as possible.  I will send out another update at 8pm tonight with the
> status.
>
> -Bill
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