Re: multi-threaded run-tests.php

Please. This would be a big help to me, since I'm running these tests many, many times a day as I develop the reference cycle collector. On 7/24/07, Richard Lynch <ceo@l-i-e.com> wrote:

On Tue, July 24, 2007 5:24 pm, Nuno Lopes wrote: Recently we have moved http://gcov.php.net to a new (and much faster) server. This allowed us to reduce the time to build all branches to "just" 2 days (compared with almost one week that would take previously). However I'm still not happy :P The server has 2x2 CPU cores and I would like to use them :) Currently I can speed-up the make process, because it can be parallelized (with -j xx). But the major time is still spent with run-tests.php. So, what I would like to propose is a multi-threaded version of run-tests.php. We could spawn x processes (configurable) and one of them would test y extensions (I think it's better to have each extension's tests tested serially or they may break, because they may use the same resources: BDs, files, etc..). Sounds good to this naive reader. Set X high enough, and you might even find an multi-extension thread-safe issue we've been missing. :-v If I'm reading it right, for sure the pgsql extension tests are serial within the extension, as it re-uses the DB connection and presumes test db setup in early tests, so you're 100% right on the inability to parallelize that. -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some indie artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So? -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php