22 Final TC1 live fail: timeout due to SMP performance bug?

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2015-04-30 at 05:08 -0400, Kamil Paral wrote:
> > Hey folks - just thought I'd note this. The openQA run for Final 
> > TC1
> > Workstation live failed; after 'clicking' the 'Install' button on 
> > the
> > welcome screen it waited 30 seconds for anaconda to install then 
> > timed
> > out and failed.
> > 
> > I tried locally and it took right around 30 secs for anaconda to 
> > run
> > in a 2-CPU VM here too, but it *did* run. So I think nothing was
> > broken, it just would have taken longer than openQA waited to 
> > launch.
> > 
> > I think this is probably related to that bug about multi-CPU VMs
> > running slowly - does anyone recall the bug number? When I tried a
> > single-CPU VM instead, anaconda only took 14 seconds to launch.
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1210857 , but I see 
> you've found it already.
> 
> For the time being, it seems that there's no benefit in giving the 
> VMs more than one CPU?

Yeah, I think it'd make sense to change the config to one CPU. That's
what I use on openqa.happyassassin.net, FWIW.
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