On Mar 26, 2014, at 16:40 , Bem Jones-Bey 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

On Mar 24, 2014, at 15:54 , Dirk Pranke 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:




On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 3:32 PM, Bem Jones-Bey 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

On Mar 24, 2014, at 14:54 , Dirk Pranke 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:




On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Benjamin Poulain 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Same here :(


On 3/23/14, 12:15 PM, Darin Adler wrote:
When I use run-webkit-tests to run the entire test suite, on a debug build of 
TOT WebKit, on Mavericks, I’m having the following problems:

- Towards the end of the run, the tests run slowly, over a second per test on 
my 3.5GHz i7 iMac with tons of memory, which is about 10X too slow I think. The 
sample shows the vast majority of the time is spent in JavaScript garbage 
collection. This is running mostly the svg/custom tests.
Yep. The time from 31k to 33k is a long as from 0 to 31k :(

- Towards the end of the run, instead of the 8 parallel copies of 
DumpRenderTree, only 1 copy of DumpRenderTree seems to run. This is running 
mostly the svg/custom tests.
I think the problem is we can only run DumpRenderTree in parallel on different 
folders. Toward the end, everything left is one or two slow folders.


The problem is partially that the sharding is folder-at-a-time, partially that 
the svg folder is big and slow, and partially that "svg" comes near the end of 
the alphabet (i.e., we don't start the big slow directory until close to the 
end of run, so there ends up being one big long pole).

At some point we added code to run-webkit-tests to have a list of "slow" 
directories that got started towards the beginning. I don't remember if we did 
that before or after the Blink fork, but it would be easy to port it over from 
Blink if it was after.

I'm pretty sure this was after the Blink fork. I did a quick look through the 
history, and I found this:

http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/blink?revision=152697&view=revision

Is that the correct change? If it will make tests run faster in WebKit land as 
well, I'm more than happy to port it myself. :-)


Yup, that's the one. Obviously the whole "virtual test suite" thing is less 
relevant, but you can use it for any directory you want.

Well, I tried that patch, replacing "virtual" with "svg", and it doesn't seem 
to have any effect on the speed of the run for me. But I'm also not 100% sure 
that I am seeing the slowness issue that others are reporting. (I also get 18 
copies of DRT, not 8, so....)

In case it matters, I ran the tests with WTR, and I see the issue; however, 
it's not svg tests for me: it's http and ietestcenter tests, and a couple of 
others. So it doesn't look like it's related to a single batch of tests.

- Bem

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