Re: [boost] Please help understanding regression results

From: Martin Wille (mw8329_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-09-01 05:46:41

Arkadiy Vertleyb wrote:

> Oh, I haven't realised how big a difference in time between tests can be...
> It makes sense now.

Yes, the situation regarding my test runs is pretty bad currently:

I can't leave the testing machine unattended currently: the old PSU 
broke, I added a new one, there was a expliosion inside the box (a 
capacitor, likely), visual inspection didn't reveal anything. I 
currently have to sit right next to the box in order to be able to 
extinguish any fires that might break out in case there's another explosion.

A clean test run takes a day of CPU time. Nearly-clean runs get 
triggered by small changes to any one of many core libraries (MPL, 
type_traits, etc).

Tests runs need even more attention because some of the tests don't link 
for intel-9.0. This results in a busy loop and I have to kill the 
process manually.

Once I can trust the test machine again and the linking problem got 
fixed, results should be available more frequently again.

Regards,
m
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