Problem using phoronix-test-suite 3.8.0 with Fedora 16/17

robwill · #1 19th August 2012, 04:38 PM

I could not get the Phoronix test suites (that have to be compiled) to work on Fedora 16.
So I installed a Fedora 17 system and have the same problem. This example is the "scimark2" suite. I can do the compile myself ("make" as per the README instructions) and the actual test runs just fine. The run is done by an ordinary user-id (not root).

Suggestions appreciated. Thanks.

Details of the situation:

Attempted install of phoronix test suite "scimark2"

Note: "phts" is my alias for "phoronix-test-suite"

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$ phts install scimark2

Phoronix Test Suite v3.8.0

To Install: pts/scimark2-1.1.1

Determining File Requirements ..........................................
Searching Download Caches ..............................................

1 Test To Install
1 File To Download [0.01MB]
1MB Of Disk Space Is Needed

pts/scimark2-1.1.1:
Test Installation 1 of 1
1 File Needed [0.01 MB]
Downloading: scimark2_1c.zip [0.01MB]
Downloading .................................................. ......
Installation Size: 0.04 MB
Installing Test @ 14:43:04
The installer exited with a non-zero exit status.
Installation Log: /home/bobe/.phoronix-test-suite/installed-tests/pts/scimark2-1.1.1/install-failed.log

The following tests failed to install:

- pts/scimark2-1.1.1

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

*** install-failed.log for scimark2 ***

Archive: scimark2_1c.zip
inflating: scimark2_files/array.h
inflating: scimark2_files/constants.h
inflating: scimark2_files/FFT.h
inflating: scimark2_files/kernel.h
inflating: scimark2_files/LU.h
inflating: scimark2_files/MonteCarlo.h
inflating: scimark2_files/Random.h
inflating: scimark2_files/scimark2.h
inflating: scimark2_files/SOR.h
inflating: scimark2_files/SparseCompRow.h
inflating: scimark2_files/Stopwatch.h
inflating: scimark2_files/array.c
inflating: scimark2_files/FFT.c
inflating: scimark2_files/kernel.c
inflating: scimark2_files/LU.c
inflating: scimark2_files/MonteCarlo.c
inflating: scimark2_files/Random.c
inflating: scimark2_files/scimark2.c
inflating: scimark2_files/SOR.c
inflating: scimark2_files/SparseCompRow.c
inflating: scimark2_files/Stopwatch.c
inflating: scimark2_files/Makefile
inflating: scimark2_files/README
/tmp/pts-compiler-mask-scimark21.1.1//g++: fork: retry: No child processes
/tmp/pts-compiler-mask-scimark21.1.1//g++: fork: retry: No child processes
/tmp/pts-compiler-mask-scimark21.1.1//g++: fork: retry: No child processes
/tmp/pts-compiler-mask-scimark21.1.1//g++: fork: retry: No child processes
/tmp/pts-compiler-mask-scimark21.1.1//g++: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

------------------------------------------------------------------------------

System is Fedora 17, with available maintenance installed (yum update).

Compiler: gcc version 4.7.0 20120507 (Red Hat 4.7.0-5) (GCC)

angryfirelord · #2 19th August 2012, 06:26 PM

Do you have all of the dependencies installed? Make sure g++ is available.

robwill · #3 19th August 2012, 08:25 PM

yum shows the following pkgs installed that have "gcc" or "c++" in their name:

gcc.i686 4.7.0-5.fc17
gcc-c++.i686 4.7.0-5.fc17
gcc-gfortran.i686 4.7.0-5.fc17
libgcc.i686 4.7.0-5.fc17
compat-libstdc++-33.i686 3.2.3-68.3
gnutls-c++.i686 2.12.17-1.fc17
libsigc++20.i686 2.2.10-2.fc17
libstdc++.i686 4.7.0-5.fc17
libstdc++-devel.i686 4.7.0-5.fc17

I have noticed that the commands "gcc" and "c++" both result in the same C compiler.

angryfirelord · #4 20th August 2012, 11:23 PM

What happens when you run this command?

Code:

ulimit

My suspicion is that it's either a bug or it's a hard setting in Fedora and it's somehow creating another instance of gcc when it won't let it do it.

Just for the heck of it, run it as root and see what happens.

robwill · #5 21st August 2012, 08:08 PM

In response to previous questions:

(1) Running phoronix-test-suite as "root" has the same result as running as an ordinary user.

(2) result of ulimit command:

[joe@i5Fed17 ~]$ ulimit
unlimited
[joe@i5Fed17 ~]$ ulimit -a
core file size (blocks, -c) 0
data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited
scheduling priority (-e) 0
file size (blocks, -f) unlimited
pending signals (-i) 31513
max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 64
max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited
open files (-n) 1024
pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8
POSIX message queues (bytes, -q) 819200
real-time priority (-r) 0
stack size (kbytes, -s) 8192
cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited
max user processes (-u) 1024
virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited
file locks (-x) unlimited

hlovdal · #6 7th September 2012, 11:36 PM

I also experience fork error messages when trying to run tests. The good news is that I have found the cause of the fork error message. I have not found the reason yet.

I debugged by running pts trough strace, and then wrote a perl script to show a tree with parent/child relations. The sinner is easy to spot at the bottom...

Code:

$ strace -o mylog -f -ff ./phoronix-test-suite install pts/disk
... // wait until fork errors occur in other terminal windows
^C
$ perl strace2tree.pl mylog 18491 | head -295
./phoronix-test-suite
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  <pid 18495>
  /bin/sh
   /usr/bin/date
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   /usr/bin/glxinfo
   /usr/bin/grep
  /usr/bin/glxinfo
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   /usr/bin/lsb_release
    /usr/bin/getopt
    /usr/bin/getopt
    /usr/bin/basename
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    /usr/bin/basename
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    /usr/bin/basename
    /usr/bin/basename
    /usr/bin/basename
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    <pid 18516>
     /usr/bin/head
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     /usr/bin/sed
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     <pid 18522>
     /usr/bin/sed
    <pid 18524>
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     /usr/bin/sed
    <pid 18527>
     <pid 18528>
     /usr/bin/sed
    <pid 18530>
     <pid 18531>
     /usr/bin/sed
    <pid 18533>
     <pid 18534>
     /usr/bin/tr
  /bin/sh
   /usr/bin/gconftool-2
  /bin/sh
   /usr/bin/gconftool-2
  /bin/sh
   /usr/bin/qdbus
  /bin/sh
   /usr/bin/gsettings
    <pid 18544>
  /bin/sh
   /usr/bin/gsettings
    <pid 18547>
  /usr/bin/xset
  /bin/sh
   /usr/bin/clang
  /bin/sh
   /usr/bin/llvm-link
  /bin/sh
   /usr/bin/stat
  /bin/sh
   /usr/bin/tput
  /bin/sh
   /usr/bin/sh
    /usr/bin/cat
    /usr/bin/chmod
  <pid 18561>
  <pid 18562>
  /bin/sh
   /usr/bin/sh
    /usr/bin/tar
     /usr/bin/gzip
    /usr/bin/tar
     /usr/bin/gzip
    /usr/bin/mkdir
    ./configure
     <pid 18571>
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     <pid 18575>
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     /usr/bin/expr
     /usr/bin/expr
     /usr/bin/basename
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      /usr/bin/basename
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      /usr/bin/basename
     <pid 18589>
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       <pid 18592>
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       <pid 18596>
        /usr/bin/expr
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      <pid 18600>
      <pid 18601>
     /usr/bin/expr
     <pid 18603>
      /usr/bin/dirname
     <pid 18605>
     /usr/bin/expr
     /usr/bin/expr
     /usr/bin/rm
     /usr/bin/rm
     /usr/bin/mkdir
     <pid 18611>
     /usr/bin/ln
     /usr/bin/ln
     /usr/bin/rm
     /usr/bin/rmdir
     /usr/bin/mkdir
     <pid 18617>
      <pid 18618>
     <pid 18619>
     <pid 18620>
      <pid 18621>
       /usr/bin/sed
     <pid 18623>
      /usr/bin/sed
     <pid 18625>
     <pid 18626>
      <pid 18627>
     <pid 18628>
      <pid 18629>
     <pid 18630>
      <pid 18631>
       /usr/bin/hostname
      /usr/bin/sed
     /usr/bin/expr
     /usr/bin/expr
     <pid 18636>
     /usr/bin/ls
     <pid 18638>
      /usr/bin/ls
     <pid 18640>
      /usr/bin/dirname
     <pid 18642>
      <pid 18643>
     /usr/bin/cat
     /usr/bin/cat
      <pid 18646>
       <pid 18647>
        /usr/bin/hostname
       /usr/bin/sed
      <pid 18650>
       /usr/bin/uname
      <pid 18652>
       /usr/bin/uname
      <pid 18654>
       /usr/bin/uname
      <pid 18656>
       /usr/bin/uname
      <pid 18658>
       /usr/bin/uname
      <pid 18660>
       /bin/uname
      <pid 18662>
       /bin/arch
      <pid 18664>
       /usr/bin/arch
      <pid 18666>
       /usr/convex/getsysinfo
      <pid 18668>
       /usr/bin/hostinfo
      <pid 18670>
       /bin/machine
      <pid 18672>
       /usr/bin/oslevel
      <pid 18674>
       /bin/universe
     /usr/bin/cat
     /usr/bin/rm
     /usr/bin/cat
     /usr/bin/cat
     /usr/bin/cat
     /usr/bin/cat
     /usr/bin/cat
     /usr/bin/grep
     /usr/bin/grep
     /usr/bin/rm
     /usr/bin/mkdir
     <pid 18687>
     /usr/bin/install
     /usr/bin/rm
     /usr/bin/sleep
     <pid 18691>
      <pid 18692>
       /usr/bin/ls
      /usr/bin/rm
     <pid 18695>
      <pid 18696>
      /usr/bin/sed
     <pid 18698>
     /bin/sh
     /usr/bin/mkdir
     <pid 18701>
      <pid 18702>
      /usr/bin/sed
     /usr/bin/cat
     <pid 18705>
      /usr/bin/make
     /usr/bin/rm
     /usr/bin/rm
     /usr/bin/mkdir
     /usr/bin/rmdir
     <pid 18712>
     <pid 18713>
     <pid 18714>
     /usr/bin/cat
     /usr/bin/cat
     /usr/bin/cat
     <pid 18718>
      /usr/bin/make
      /usr/bin/grep
     /usr/bin/rm
     <pid 18723>
     <pid 18724>
      /tmp/pts-compiler-mask-sqlite1.8.0/gcc
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hlovdal · #7 8th September 2012, 12:10 PM

The /tmp/pts-compiler-mask-sqlite1.8.0/gcc "stair" was caused by attempting to call "gcc --version" from a configure script. /tmp/pts-compiler-mask-sqlite1.8.0/gcc was generated to invoke /usr/lib64/ccache/gcc which then apparently invoked /tmp/pts-compiler-mask-sqlite1.8.0/gcc again, over and over. With just "--version" ccache does not have anything to do and tries to fall back to the real compiler, but this fails here. Maybe it is possible to make the custom pts compiler wrapper and ccache to play nice together (using CCACHE_PREFIX I assume), but I did not succed in my limited attempt.

However, just removing /usr/lib64/ccache from PATH before running ./phoronix-test-suite avoids the problem.