On Feb 15, 1:31 pm, kcrisman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > expected behavior. > > > It does always timeout. The regular doctests take 1300 seconds for > > sandpile.py! I need to figure out what's going on there. > > > > I think at this point manual intervention is required. Or was there > > > something else you were thinking it should do (because clearly you > > > were surprised, which isn't the intent). > > > Well, I wasn't *too* surprised. I guess I was hoping for everything to > > work perfectly with no intervention. But it does seem to be working now, > > with a longer timeout. > > Some followup (#10702 notwithstanding): > > So I tried out the patchbot. Seemed to work reasonably well at > first. > > Then I came into my office this morning. Computer was humming at a > VERY decent clip; I could not get the screen to appear, Ctrl-C did > nothing, nothing nothing nothing, but clearly very busy (testing, > perhaps). I had to restart it manually. > > Now I'm looking for where the patchbot might have left some residue of > its doings so that I can make sure this doesn't happen again (perhaps > by setting some configuration thingie). But I can really only find > the local/bin/patchbot folder, which doesn't seem to have a log. > > So I now have two questions: > > 1) Can I configure so that it runs ONE thread at a time? I noticed it > was running 3 threads... on a machine with one processor at < 1 GHz. > I didn't see a place for setting this in the patchbot - is that the > "parallelism": 3 setting? Perhaps "doctest_threads" or something > could be an alternate setting. In any case, this should be a little > more sophisticated than 3 as a default - maybe number of cores +1 or > something. I hope this is what the problem I had was.
On a related note, an option to have patchbot only test files actually changed in the patches would be useful. Obviously this would not be the default! But it could be useful for running "sage --patchbot ticket --ticket-doctests-only" in the background for a quick one-liner to check that. -- To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
