[CMake] ctest 2.8rc1 not timing out stuck tests? (Mac OS X 10.6.1)?

Bill Hoffman bill.hoffman at kitware.com
Tue Sep 29 15:36:40 EDT 2009


Sean McBride wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've been setting up a nightly dashboard for CMake, VTK, and ITK on Mac
> OS X 10.6.1 using ctest 2.8rc1.  Several times now I've see a test
> consume 100% CPU for a long time and yet ctest is not killing it and
> timing out.  Here's a test I killed myself from Activity Monitor:
> 
> 116/1144 Test #116: 
> itkStatisticsAlgorithmTest ..........
> ...................................***Exception: SegFault29491.00 sec
> 
> 8 hours is more than my timeout for sure! :)
> 
> If I rerun the test it passes quickly. :(
> 
> Anyone seen this?  How can I troubleshoot?
> 

The timeout for tests was not being honored by the new ctest, the fix is 
in CVS CMake now.    I can not explain why the test would pass quickly 
the next time, but ctest should start killing it in the future...

-Bill


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