On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 7:45 PM, Gary Oberbrunner <[email protected]>wrote:
> >> So, what about this directory? Should it be renamed or purged? >> > > It's got the whole test framework in it (TestCmd, TestSCons etc.) so it's > important -- it should be renamed. Maybe "test-framework"? > The first idea was TestSC, but if we aim for the lowercase consistency then just 'testing' seems good. > And btw, I just added -jN to runtest.py, so per the above wiki page, we >>> can now run the tests in parallel (with no QMTest). With -j10 on my >>> average dual-core laptop, the tests take about 15 minutes now, and the test >>> results seem OK. And we also have test timing and time reporting now, as >>> well as out-of-core tool testing and test fixtures. So at this point I >>> think there's no further reason to consider QMTest. I'll mark that wiki >>> page as pretty much all complete now. >>> >> >> I guess the next bottleneck is to speed up disk operations. Something to >> dig about ramdisks in user space. At least Linux looks like a capable OS. >> > > Sure, why not! I'm much happier already, so will probably move into other > areas, but any test speedups are always welcome. Another possibility would > be to look at the slowest tests (use -t) and see why they are slow. They > may be doing unnecessary work. > To be honest I am more worried about my SSD longevity than speed.
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