On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 09:20:42PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > These three patches (for discussion only, NOT to be applied) implement > a mutex system that lets the user limit the number of libguestfs > instances that can be launched per host. There are two uses that I > have identified for this: firstly so we can enable parallel-tests (the > default in automake >= 1.13) without blowing up the host. Secondly > oVirt has raised concerns about how to limit the number of libguestfs > appliances that can run to prevent this from interfering with their > ordinary guests.
IMHO this whole feature is of dubious worth & overly simplistic. For automake you can already control parallelization of tests just by varying the '-jNNN' number. If oVirt wants to limit the number of appliances it creates, it should just do so itself. For appliances not directly invoked by ovirt, I don't see that this is going to help, since you can't rely on the env vars being set. Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| _______________________________________________ Libguestfs mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libguestfs
