Re: [pcp] Recent QA failures

[Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----
> [...]
> This one is very strange.
> 
> For the regular file case there are 2 records in the file, there are 2
> records Appended, Added and Removed via the libpcp_pmda Queue services (as
> reported by -Dlibpmda for the PMDA).
> 
> But pmevent in the qa test sees 3 (!) records,  and the last one (after the 2
> expected records) is the empty string "" ... this smells more like an EOF
> problem, rather than a race at start up.

*nod*

> But, wait, there is more ... with diags enabled (-Dlibpmda) for the PMDA the
> test passes ... disable the diags and it fails (I've repeated both
> experiments several times).
> 
> Not sure where to look now .... suggestions would be most welcome.

Nothing concrete other than its gotta be one of pmdalogger or libpcp_pmda
(the -D observation above rules out libpcp and pmevent, I think).  Guess
that doesn't help hugely in narrowing it down though.  :|

cheers.

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Nathan