On 07/07/2009 19:38, Mickey Mazarick wrote:
Since I'm running my setup as a storage farm it just doesn't matter to
me if there's a memory leak of if a server daemon crashes, I have cron
jobs that restart it and I barely take notice.
Ouch, ouch, ouch. That sounds like a monumental bodge. If somebody
working for me implemented that kind of a "solution" for a frequently
occuring problem in a production environment, they'd be finding
themselves looking for a new job pretty quickly. Most likely along
with the architect who trialed the solution before putting it into
production without finding the problems that require such a solution.
Solution to crashing processes is fixing the bug that causes them to
crash, not a wrapper that gets them restarted.
True a regression testing
would get rid of the memory leak you hate but if they have to start from
the ground up I would rather encourage the dev team to add hotadd
upgrade and hotadd features. These things would keep my cluster going
even if there were catastrophic problems.
The _LAST_ thing Gluster needs at the moment is more features. Lack of
stability loses you customers much faster than extra features gain them.
What I'm saying is that a good top down testing system is something we
can discuss here, spec out and perhaps create independently of the
development team. I think what most people want is a more stable product
and I think a top down approach will get it there faster than trying to
implement a given UT system from the bottom up. It will defiantly answer
the question "should I upgrade to this release?"
IMO, a top down approach merely glazes over the more fundamental
problems. You cannot engineer quality from the top down. You design
from top down, but quality comes from bottom up.
Gordan
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