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: -- Chris Evich, RHCA, RHCE, RHCDS, RHCSS Quality Assurance Engineer e-mail: cevich + `@' + redhat.com o: 1-888-RED-HAT1 x44214 _______________________________________________ Autotest mailing list [email protected] http://test.kernel.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/autotest
