On 01/17/2013 07:16 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > For some reason this is marked as deprecated. > > This is bad: parallel tests are fine for tiny tests which use only a > little bit of memory. However if your tests are very large and use a > lot of RAM then running them in parallel can cause them to fail > unnecessarily. > > The libguestfs test suite is exactly like this: parallel tests causes > it to fail because you end up running multiple parallel VMs. Serial > tests is the right way to go for us. > This is a documentation problem, mostly (and my fault BTW, but let's move on). We should say that 'paralle-tests' is "encouraged", rather than saying that 'serial-tests' is "deprecated". In fact, there are no plan to ever remove it, or even give runtime warnings upon its usage.
Patches to the manual would be most welcome. Best regards, Stefano
