mariadb test-suite failures

Hi all, I had a talk with the lead mariadb maintainer yesterday trying to get us out of the current situation with various tests randomly failing during the mariadb 10.1.x builds and we should have a plan now: - run only the basic part of the test-suite in %check, it helps reducing the build times in general - run the full test-suite in separate environment - CI?, only limited arches? - watch the results of the basic test-suite across all arches - make the failures on alt-arches non-fatal (if needed with the reduced set) - try to investigate and fix the failures, from previous experience it should be the test-suite what's broken Looks pretty sure some of the failures we see are affected by the general kernel threading/resource exhaustion issue (tracked elsewhere), but the plan should make our builds easier anyway. The test-suite is fragile in general, because even primary builds often take more build attempts for a successful build ... Dan