-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Berkeley DB Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 19:57:21 -0500 From: Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: David Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
David Jensen wrote: > It always *best guesses* 1 hour! 4 processes is correct, > *run_parallel 4*. It may have finished in a few more minutes. When I left, I was up to test 1350 or so. It said "less than" one hour and I waited 20 :( After it > says the tests are done, it scans the output logs and prints the errors > and failed or successful. That does take some time. > Now first, let me say the instructions before I got involved said: > > run_parallel run_std. Notice, no 4. this is like make -j It created > 1582 processes and filled a 12G partition with test directories! So I > limited it to 4. That is reasonable. I didn't check disk space, so that may be an issue. Do you know were the dirs were made? Current dir? /tmp ? I have a dual 2.8 with hyperthreading on, thus top > showed varying low to medium loads on the 4 pipes. > Probably we should ditch the run_parallel, just add a note that it could > be used. Not if it fills up 12G! That doesn't seem reasonable to me. > I will run a test overnight without the run_parallel. Then use that SBU. OK. I'll try it too. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
