On May 24, 2013, at 5:05 AM, Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- >> In article <mailman.2027.1369333910.3114.python-l...@python.org>, >> Dave Angel <da...@davea.name> wrote: >> >>> On 05/23/2013 09:09 AM, Roy Smith wrote: >>>> >>>> <SNIP> >>>> >>>> nosetests --process-timeout=60 --processes=40 test_api.py >>>> >>> >>> Do you have a 40-processor system? >> >> No, but many of the tests are I/O bound. > > Sorry to hijack your thread but what do you mean by that ?
That means that a lot of time running the test is spent waiting for I/O (in this case, network reads), as opposed to actually running on a CPU. > I have a lot of tests myself that spend most of their time writing and > reading files. Should I try to multiprocess them ? Maybe :-) -- Roy Smith r...@panix.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list