At one point I was running multiple run-webkit-tests at the same time, and for the most part it worked ok. There were a couple of gotchas.
1) Some tests depend on temporary files being created and then deleted, and running multiple tests was interfering with that. I believe this bug was fixed. 2) The http server for the http tests doesn't handle concurrent tests very well. You would need to look at those tests and figure out what needs to be done there. Something else you can look at is running run-webkit-tests with the -- threaded flag. It runs with the test multiple javascript threads. You can run that and see if it highlights any other issues. The last time I ran with that flag (a while ago) there were a large number of failures. -- Stephanie Lewis A final thought. If we did introduce simultaneous tests then run- webkit-tests would lose some of its value, because the test would be less deterministic. On Jul 10, 2008, at 7:58 PM, Dan Bernstein wrote: > On Jul 10, 2008, at 5:11 PM, Refstrup, Jacob Grundtvig wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Has anyone looked into making run-webkit-tests run faster by taking >> advantage of multiple CPUs? E.g. my workstation is 8gb, with 2 x >> dual core and I think it'd do just fine in running 4-8 tests >> simultaneously. >> >> If there's no such work then I might start poking around. > > I am not aware of any current work. See > <https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10906 >> . > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
