Re: [Boost-testing] Expected update frequency of the online regression result tables?

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-10-23 11:20:35

Rene Rivera wrote:
> Markus Schöpflin wrote:
>> Rene Rivera wrote:
>>> Markus Schöpflin wrote:
>> [...]
>>
>> Forgive my (probably very naive) question, but why is it actually taking 
>> that long to generate the results? After all, it's just parsing through a 
>> few log files and generating a number of HTML pages. ;-)
> 
> It *could* be fast... If the report generation just wasn't written in 
> XSL ;-) One rather slow part is packaging the results up for upload, as 
> it takes a fair amount of CPU to zip+bzip2 1.2G of HTML, and then upload 
> 130M. Keep you hopes up though, there's one more change I can do (this 
> time to regression.py) that will shorten things a little bit more. But 
> if anyone has some brilliant ideas as to how to make the result 
> processing faster don't hesitate to implement them.

How about moving the report generation to Dave's server? Isn't that a 
much faster multi-core machine?

--Beman