Re: [HACKERS] Cost of src/test/recovery and .../subscription tests

2017-05-03 Thread Tom Lane
Robert Haas writes: > On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 1:28 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >> I am going to say flat out that that's unacceptably long for >> a test script that will be run dozens of times a day by the >> buildfarm. There isn't any other test script that takes more >> than circa 90 seconds on that m

Re: [HACKERS] Cost of src/test/recovery and .../subscription tests

2017-05-03 Thread Robert Haas
On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 1:28 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > So I updated longfin to the new release of the buildfarm client, > and was quite dismayed by the fact that its cycle time went > from 16 minutes to 24. Some of that might be random effects like > the state of the kernel disk caches, but a large c

Re: [HACKERS] Cost of src/test/recovery and .../subscription tests

2017-04-19 Thread Andrew Dunstan
On 04/19/2017 01:28 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > So I updated longfin to the new release of the buildfarm client, > and was quite dismayed by the fact that its cycle time went > from 16 minutes to 24. Some of that might be random effects like > the state of the kernel disk caches, but a large chunk of

[HACKERS] Cost of src/test/recovery and .../subscription tests

2017-04-19 Thread Tom Lane
So I updated longfin to the new release of the buildfarm client, and was quite dismayed by the fact that its cycle time went from 16 minutes to 24. Some of that might be random effects like the state of the kernel disk caches, but a large chunk of it --- over 5 minutes --- evidently is from src/te