Re: Adding binutils to the GNU Toolchain buildbot on sourceware

Jan Beulich via Gdb <[email protected]> Tue, 26 Apr 2022 08:22:36 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gdb.devel,gmane.comp.gnu.binutils
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On 26.04.2022 05:33, Alan Modra via Binutils wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 08:20:50PM +0200, Mark Wielaard wrote:
>> I think we should try to keep builds/checks under 10 minutes, that the
> 
> Related to that, there are some x86_64 gas and ld tests that I find to
> be annoying resource hogs when running multiple binutils target builds
> in parallel.  gas/testsuite/gas/i386/rept and
> ld/testsuite/ld-x86-64/pr17618 both require over 1G of memory.
> 
> HJ, would you please look at reducing the memory footprint of those
> test?

For gas/testsuite/gas/i386/rept I did already suggest [1] to simply purge
the test as unreliable. I also put under question the purpose that it was
originally added for.

Jan

[1] https://sourceware.org/pipermail/binutils/2022-April/120339.html