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Hoss Man commented on LUCENE-3667:
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Some anecdotal numbers on my ThinkPad T400 ("Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU
P8800 @ 2.66GHz" with 8GB RAM running "Linux bester 2.6.31-23-generic
#75-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 18 18:16:06 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux")
"time ant clean compile test" on my laptop this morning, using trunk r1225376...
{noformat}
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 32 minutes 27 seconds
real 32m28.495s
user 33m12.050s
sys 1m47.760s
{noformat}
...during that run, my CPU temp monitor warned several times (4 i think? it's a
notification bar thing, i don't believe i have a log of it) that my CPUs were
spiking into the 70-75C range.
same command after svn updating to r1225945 ....
{noformat}
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 18 minutes 49 seconds
real 18m50.329s
user 23m44.440s
sys 1m1.080s
{noformat}
...and my CPU only spiked up to the ~70C range once.
+1 ... thanks rmuir.
> Consider changing how we set the number of threads to use to run tests.
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> Key: LUCENE-3667
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-3667
> Project: Lucene - Java
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Mark Miller
> Assignee: Mark Miller
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: LUCENE-3667.patch, LUCENE-3667.patch, LUCENE-3667.patch,
> LUCENE-3667.patch, LUCENE-3667.patch
>
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> The current way we set the number of threads to use is not expressive enough
> for some systems. My quad core with hyper threading is recognized as 8 CPUs -
> since I can only override the number of threads to use per core, 8 is as low
> as I can go. 8 threads can be problematic for me - just the amount of RAM
> used sometimes can toss me into heavy paging because I only have 8 GB of RAM
> - the heavy paging can cause my whole system to come to a crawl. Without
> hacking the build, I don't think I have a lot of workarounds.
> I'd like to propose that switch from using threadsPerProcessor to
> threadCount. In some ways, it's not as nice, because it does not try to scale
> automatically per system. But that auto scaling is often not ideal (hyper
> threading, wanting to be able to do other work at the same time), so perhaps
> we just default to 1 or 2 threads and devs can override individually?
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