On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 08:04:10PM +0200, Thomas Rast wrote: > John Keeping <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 07:35:01PM +0530, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: > >> On a related note, one place that IO parallelism can provide massive > >> benefits is in executing shell scripts. Accordingly, I always use the > >> following commands to compile and test git respectively: > >> > >> make -j 8 CFLAGS="-g -O0 -Wall" > >> make -j 8 DEFAULT_TEST_TARGET=prove GIT_PROVE_OPTS="-j 16" test > >> > >> i.e. always use 8 threads when the task is known to be CPU intensive, > >> and always use 16 threads when the task is known to be IO intensive. > > > > On this tangent, I recently added a TEST_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY line to my > > config.mak which points into a tmpfs mount. Keeping all of the test > > repositories in RAM makes the tests significantly faster for me and > > works nicely when you have the patches in jk/test-output (without those > > patches the individual tests work but the reporting of aggregate results > > doesn't). > > But that's been possible for quite some time now, using --root, or am I > missing something? No, I was the one missing something (--root to be precise). But with TEST_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY you also get the result files in your temporary location, not just the trash directory. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html