On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 12:45 AM, Paul Vriens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > James Hawkins wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 8:08 PM, James Mckenzie >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> One file per run is all that should be created, IMHO. >> >> No, zero log files should be created. This discussion is about >> reducing the time it takes to run the tests, and any logging hinders >> that effort. >> > OK, back to the initial discussion then. > > I did find that 'System Restore' was the cause of the slowdown on a lot of (at > least) XP and Vista systems. Patches are being sent for that. > > Disabling logging as I suggested at first only helps to get rid of a few > seconds > from the total run time of these tests. The question remains however why some > people have loads of log files in their temp directory and some don't. > > Do you think that for testing purposes we could add a check in the install > tests > that shows us the number of MSI logfiles in the temp directory before and > afterwards? Or is it enough that several people already responded to my > question > about those logfiles? > > -- > Cheers, > > Paul. > > >
FWIW, my work XP box times out on quite a few tests, but has system restore disabled. -Austin
