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my cmdline tests are extremely slow

From: Neels J. Hofmeyr <neels_at_elego.de>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 04:38:37 +0100

Stefan Sperling wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 07:28:43AM +0200, Neels J Hofmeyr wrote:
>> Also, I haven't actually checked *all* of the commandline tests. It takes
>> ages to complete, with apparent longer breaks of doing nothing at all, when
>> watching the CPU and disk activity.
>>
>> And then I have to run it twice, once for trunk and once for my patch, to be
>> able to compare test outcomes. How do you handle this kind of situation?
>
> Use a RAM disk to host temporary test data.
> See http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#ramdisk-tests

So I did that. But still, running merge_tests.py --cleanup in the ramdisk
has random pauses of all activity for sometimes as much as 15 seconds.
That's ridiculous. Why can't it just race through the tests, idling at most
a second at a time? Why is my CPU staying cold?

I've also seen that if I run a single test, it goes swiftly. Then, if I run
a whole list of them, there appear to be completely random pauses between
the tests sometimes, and sometimes not. It's weirding me out...

Thanks for any help.
~Neels

Received on 2008-10-30 04:39:03 CET

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