Re: [PATCH] scale down 074 on lower end machines

[David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>]

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 08:15:10AM +1000, David Chinner wrote:
> On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 07:39:13PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > 074 takes ages to complete on my kvm test VM, but scaling it back to the
> > level used on IRIX makes it complete in slightly under 10 minutes.
> > 
> > I'm not sure if checking for UP vs SMP is the right way to go into slow
> > mode, but I couldn't think of anything better.
> 
> Seems fair - I was wondering exactly the same thing yesterday
> as this is another test that takes >15min to run on UML. I didn't
> think of the UP vs SMP trigger, but it seems like a good way to
> go given all of the real QA boxes we have are SMP.
> 
> I'll give it a run and see how it goes.

FWIW - runtime on UML has dropped from 918s to 88s. Very reasonable
now, and makes the maximum single test runtime in UML about 330s....

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
Principal Engineer
SGI Australian Software Group