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Simon Willnauer commented on LUCENE-3667: ----------------------------------------- -Dtests.sequential=true works good for me on restricted systems. But I agree I think we should have a setting that sets a upper bound no matter how many cpus are available. > Consider changing how we set the number of threads to use to run tests. > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: LUCENE-3667 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-3667 > Project: Lucene - Java > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: Mark Miller > Assignee: Mark Miller > Priority: Minor > > The current way we set the number of threads to use is not expressive enough > for some systems. My quad core with hyper threading is recognized as 8 CPUs - > since I can only override the number of threads to use per core, 8 is as low > as I can go. 8 threads can be problematic for me - just the amount of RAM > used sometimes can toss me into heavy paging because I only have 8 GB of RAM > - the heavy paging can cause my whole system to come to a crawl. Without > hacking the build, I don't think I have a lot of workarounds. > I'd like to propose that switch from using threadsPerProcessor to > threadCount. In some ways, it's not as nice, because it does not try to scale > automatically per system. But that auto scaling is often not ideal (hyper > threading, wanting to be able to do other work at the same time), so perhaps > we just default to 1 or 2 threads and devs can override individually? -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org