Lucas,

I think this is a great idea.

Random idea: Maybe also drop the 'df' collection as well?  I ran into a 
problem the other day where an stale NFS mount was causing all 
autotest'ing to 'hang'.  Either way, I think there's limited usefulness 
of collecting disk space info. repeatedly.

On 01/05/2012 10:02 PM, Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues wrote:
> Following the same idea of listing installed pkgs,
> dropping memory caches is a useful feature for
> people running benchmarks on their laptops, but
> not for test developers. So, by default, turn this
> behavior off and reccommend turining it on for test
> setups where benchmarks will run. This way we get
> a little speed increase executing tests on developers
> machines.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues<[email protected]>
> ---
>   global_config.ini |    8 ++++----
>   1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/global_config.ini b/global_config.ini
> index cb954eb..e8954ab 100644
> --- a/global_config.ini
> +++ b/global_config.ini
> @@ -50,11 +50,11 @@ client_autodir_paths: /usr/local/autotest,/home/autotest
>
>   [CLIENT]
>   # Whether to drop the memory cache between test executions
> -# (useful for benchmark execution purposes)
> -drop_caches: True
> +# (recommended setting to True on server setups)
> +drop_caches: False
>   # Whether to drop the memory cache between each iteration of a single test
> -# (useful for benchmark execution purposes)
> -drop_caches_between_iterations: True
> +# (recommended setting to True on server setups)
> +drop_caches_between_iterations: False
>   # Specify an alternate location to store the test results
>   #output_dir: /var/log/autotest/
>   output_dir:


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Quality Assurance Engineer
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