Hello there, I've setup a smoker test on OpenBSD and noticed that it's somehow slower than running a Smoker on Linux using the same VM configuration (I use Virtualbox). Not sure if Linux can take some advantages when using Virtualbox that OpenBSD can't (at least I know that Guest Additions is not available to the latter, but that shouldn't have a impact on performance anyway). The real problem is that I can't tell how much slower OpenBSD is for CPAN::Reporter::Smoker compared to Linux. Of course that are a lot of others things involved (kernel configuration, difference of filesystem) but I couldn't find any easier way to compare speed between the two.
Is it possible to implement the features below on CPAN::Reporter::Smoker? - How many distributions tested- How many yet to test- Calculate how many distros per unit (minutes, hour, etc) I didn't configure the smoker to skip some known problematic distributions, but I already caught the smoker sitting idle waiting for output of make. This is something that I already experimented (a lot) with Windows, but I think this is OK since IPC is problematic anyway on that OS. But I'm surprise to see it happening with OpenBSD. In time: I'm using OpenBSD 5.7 with Perl 5.22.0 (compiled with Perlbrew) with noatime and softdep configured on FFS (http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#DiskOpt). For some reason, compiling Perl with Perlbrew on OpenBSD 5.8 is not working (it fails with crypt.t and taint.t tests), but I didn't tried compiling it manually either. Regards, Alceu
