On Fri, Aug/10/2007 01:02:16PM, Jeff Squyres wrote: > On Aug 10, 2007, at 10:14 AM, Ethan Mallove wrote: > > > Do we still need to write out an INI file after each MPI > > Install and Test Build? I thought we're using .dump > > files instead? (I noticed this because it seemed to be > > taking a few minutes to write the INI file after > > building the intel tests.) > > IIRC, those are test-build-specific files and down far > deep in the scratch tree. The intent was to capture > *everything* there (including all of stdout/stderr) in > case there was something valuable there that we didn't > capture sending up to the DB. > > However, I could see how it wouldn't be too valuable these > days. > > How about turning it off, but leaving an option in the > [MTT] section to re-enable it if we ever need it again? >
Looking a little closer, there are inconsistencies in what's going to the saved .dump and .ini files: Test Run .dump (split up by variants): * Everything (including stdout/stderr) Test Run .ini: * Nothing Test Build .dump: * Everything (except stdout/stderr) Test Build .ini (split up by test suites): * Everything execept database serials, mpi_name, and environment (e.g., prepend_path, env_module, etc) MPI Install .ini: * Nothing MPI Install .dump: * Everything How about we put *everything* in the .dump files, while offering to also save *everything* in INI files in the [MTT] section? Though Perl-Dumper is only slightly less human-readble than INI. These are also a little confusing: save_stdout_on_success stderr_save_lines Don't we want these instead broken up into two: inifile and mttdatabase? So a user might choose to save more or less on their disk than to the database? save_stdout_on_success_to_mttdatabase stderr_save_lines_to_mttdatabase save_stdout_on_success_to_inifile stderr_save_lines_to_inifile -Ethan > -- > Jeff Squyres > Cisco Systems > > _______________________________________________ > mtt-users mailing list > mtt-us...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/mtt-users