Re: [Python-Dev] Parallel test execution on buildbot

2010-05-09 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> FWIW I *usually* run the test suite with parallelization (it is just so > much quicker) and these days *rarely* see spurious failures as a result. > This is on Mac OS X, YMMV. I may misremember the details, but IIRC, the multiprocessing tests would fail to terminate on Solaris. This made it unsu

Re: [Python-Dev] Parallel test execution on buildbot

2010-05-09 Thread Victor Stinner
Le dimanche 09 mai 2010 11:08:29, Michael Foord a écrit : > FWIW I *usually* run the test suite with parallelization (it is just so > much quicker) and these days *rarely* see spurious failures as a result. > This is on Mac OS X, YMMV. I use regrtest.py -j 4 on a Intel Quad Core on Linux: 4 tests

Re: [Python-Dev] Parallel test execution on buildbot

2010-05-09 Thread Michael Foord
On 09/05/2010 03:32, Nick Coghlan wrote: Martin v. Löwis wrote: Has anyone considered using regrtest's -j option in the buildbot configuration to speed up the test runs? Yes, I did. I turned it off again when the tests started failing because of it. Yeah, a lot of our tests w

Re: [Python-Dev] Parallel test execution on buildbot

2010-05-08 Thread Nick Coghlan
Martin v. Löwis wrote: >> Has anyone considered using regrtest's -j option in the buildbot >> configuration to speed up the test runs? > > Yes, I did. I turned it off again when the tests started failing because > of it. Yeah, a lot of our tests weren't written with parallel execution in mind (e.

Re: [Python-Dev] Parallel test execution on buildbot

2010-05-08 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> Has anyone considered using regrtest's -j option in the buildbot > configuration to speed up the test runs? Yes, I did. I turned it off again when the tests started failing because of it. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.o

Re: [Python-Dev] Parallel test execution on buildbot

2010-05-08 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Hi, > Has anyone considered using regrtest's -j option in the buildbot > configuration to speed up the test runs? Perhaps some buildbots are doing other useful tasks, in addition to simply building Python. This should probably be a case by case setting. I don't know how easy it is to add specif