On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Barry Warsaw <[email protected]> wrote: ... > So I put /var/lib/postgresql on a ramdisk and re-ran the test suite. This > time it took only 124m. Both machines were otherwise idle, though I don't > think it would make a difference. The 4% savings doesn't seem worth the > effort. > ... > Anyway, it was interesting and a bit disappointing. I'll try another run > perhaps over the weekend trying to capture some i/o metrics. If anybody has > interesting ideas for tests and data capture, follow up to this thread. > > I do think that increasing the parallelism of our test suite would be a > fruitful avenue to explore. >
I agree. The bug is https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/launchpad-foundations/+bug/107371. Once it's feasible to be running more than one instance locally, it's straightforward to take advantage of multi-core using subunit. Ask vila about how he runs the bzr suite some time. :) jml _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
