Re: First Time CPAN Testing on Windows

You might want to check if those steps are applicable for your test case:

http://wiki.cpantesters.org/wiki/SmokeTesting


Em 25/08/2018 14:39, Charlie Gonzalez escreveu:
> Hi Alceu,
>
> I run one smoker process on each machine, Here are the virtual machine 
> specs ( as described by Google Cloud ):
>
> OS : Windows Server 2016
> CPU:  2 VCpus - Intel Haswell
> Disk:  50  GB - Standard persistent disk
>
> Here's my quick guide to setting up a cpan smoker on Windows ( I going 
> to place this guide under - "Being a CPAN Tester ->How do I become a 
> tester? ->Setting up a dedicated Windows test machine" ) :
>
> 1- Download and install the version of Strawberry Perl you want to 
> test ( http://strawberryperl.com/releases.html - I used the 
> recommended Perl versions in msi edition )
> 2- create a C:\tmp directory
> 3- Set permissions to Full control on C:\tmp and C:\Strawberry
> 4- execute 'cpan' command on a command prompt or powershell terminal ( 
> your preference )
>   cpan> install Task::CPAN::Reporter
>   cpan> install CPAN::Reporter::Smoker
>   cpan> reload cpan
>   cpan> o conf init test_report
> 5- open powershell and start the smoker:
>    perl -MCPAN::Reporter::Smoker -e start
>
> When using the Windows Server OS, the Internet Explorer browser is set 
> to block any internet content so all you have to do is disable the 
> "Enhanced Security" in the Internet Explorers settings and proceed 
> with downloading Strawberry Perl. ( I suspect that Someone using a 
> Windows Desktop OS will not encounter these issues )
>
>
> Charlie Gonzalez
> (E) [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> Github Profile <https://github.com/itcharlie>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 12:10 PM Alceu Rodrigues de Freitas Junior via 
> cpan-testers-discuss <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>
>     Em 24/08/2018 23:02, Charlie Gonzalez escreveu:
>     > Lately, I have been updating a disabled.yml (
>     >
>     https://github.com/itcharlie/cpan-testing-configs/blob/master/disabled.yml
>
>     > ) file on distros that break while installing them on Strawberry
>     Perl
>     > in Windows ( I am not bothering to look at the reasons why the
>     modules
>     > are failing to install ).
>
>     At least one of the reasons is that doing IPC on Windows sucks big
>     time.
>     On UNIX-like OS that is much more reliable (although sometimes I have
>     the impirical impression that on OpenBSD is slower than compared to
>     Linux), but on Windows it just fails from time to time without
>     aparent
>     reason.
>
>     The only sane way to exchange data between two processes over
>     there is
>     through sockets.
>
>     That being said, I wonder why we don't have something like a "make"
>     daemon, waiting to receive requests. The processe of doing smoke
>     tests
>     involves creating a lot of processes that run ony for a short
>     period of
>     time, at least that is what I can see checking OpenBSD with vmstat
>     during a smoke test (lots of context switch compared to other uses
>     of CPU).
>
>     I'm not saying that this is something easy to fix, far from it. But
>     maybe it would worth the effort, I guess.
>
>     > After upgrading the server instance with 2 virtual cpus and 5.5
>     gigs
>     > of ram , google cloud monitoring has stop yelling at me with
>     > notifications to upgrade the server specs and
>     CPAN::Reporter::Smoker
>     > seems to be running a bit quicker now.
>
>     5.5GB looks a lot to me, but I'm not playing with Windows and Perl
>     for a
>     while nowadays. Are you running multiple smokers at the same time?
>
>     You could look for using RAM disks on Windows (not very useful 5
>     years
>     back) to store the build_dir content. That should help a bit.
>
>     > Since then I have set up 2 more servers to run CPAN tester
>     reports for
>     > Perl 5.26  and 5.24 ( I am using this opportunity to learn how its
>     > done and hash out the steps needed to setup a Smoker  on Windows )
>     >
>     If you could, it would be great to have your notes on the CPAN
>     Testers
>     wiki (http://wiki.cpantesters.org/). :-)
>