On 8 May 2015, at 17:37, Atin Mukherjee <amukherj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: On 05/08/2015 08:54 PM, Justin Clift wrote: >> On 8 May 2015, at 10:02, Mohammed Rafi K C <rkavunga@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Hi All, >>> >>> As we all know, our regression tests are killing us. An average, one >>> regression will take approximately two and half hours to complete the >>> run. So i guess this is the right time to think about enhancing our >>> regression. >>> >>> Proposal 1: >>> >>> Create a new option for the daemons to specify that it is running as >>> test mode, then we can skip fsync calls used for data durability. >>> >>> Proposal 2: >>> >>> Use ip address instead of host name, because it takes some good amount >>> of time to resolve from host name, and even some times causes spurious >>> failure. >>> >>> >>> Proposal 3: >>> Each component has a lot of .t files and there is redundancy in tests, >>> We can do a rework to reduce the .t files and make less number of tests >>> that covers unit testing for a component , and run regression runs once >>> in a day (nightly) . >>> >>> Please provide your inputs for the proposed ideas , and feel free to add >>> a new idea. >> >> Proposal 4: >> >> Break the regression tests into parts that can be run in parallel. >> >> So, instead of the regression testing for a particular CR going from the >> first test to the last in a serial sequence, we break it up into a number >> of chunks (dir based?) and make each of these a task. >> >> That won't reduce the overall number of tests, but it should get the time >> down for the result to be finished. >> >> Caveat : We're going to need more VM's, as once we get into things >> queueing up it's not going to help. :/ > This could be really effective and I've been thinking about it for quite > a long time :) Yeah, the idea wasn't first thought of by me. This seems like a good place to suggest it though. :) + Justin -- GlusterFS - http://www.gluster.org An open source, distributed file system scaling to several petabytes, and handling thousands of clients. My personal twitter: twitter.com/realjustinclift _______________________________________________ Gluster-devel mailing list Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel
