Re: [boost] Testing Farm

From: Martin Wille (mw8329_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-03-21 06:08:35

Martin Slater wrote:
>> Yes you're right -- as I mentioned in the paragraph, however, we seem 
>> to have
> 
>  > lost our MingW tester currently.
> 
>>
> 
> How long do the regressions tests normally take to run? I have an idle 
> computer for 10-12hrs or so each night which could quite happily run the 
> mingw tests. Also is it possible to execute distributed builds? (via 
> distcc or similar)

Well, that obviously depends a lot on the speed of the computer.
For a single toolset to test with, 10-12h are definitely sufficient, 
even on a slightly outdated CPU and with rebuilding everything from 
scratch. Don't run the tests with less than .5 GB of RAM.

I don't think anybody runs tests using distcc. However, I know at least 
Boost 1.31.0 can be built using distcc and with -j4 (someone told me 
that just yesterday on IRC). IIUC, there's nothing that should prevent 
distcc from working fine with Boost.Build (of course, you need 
sufficiently similar boxes). In fact, it would be a good thing to test 
with distcc.

HTH,
m