Re: [Boost-testing] Concurrent Boost Testing

Subject: Re: [Boost-testing] Concurrent Boost Testing
From: Belcourt, Kenneth (kbelco_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-02-24 13:02:58

Hi Chris,

On Feb 24, 2011, at 10:23 AM, Christopher Cambly wrote:
> A few years ago Noel (I believe) did some work on locking of the  
> output from a boost test run so that the compile and run output  
> doesn't get interleaved between tests in the results. This never  
> really worked for us on AIX. I'm not sure if anyone else has the  
> same issue.
>
That's too bad, it worked for us on AIX 5.3.  Are you using a vacpp  
built bjam or a gcc bjam?
> We have been running our tests non concurrently to work around this  
> problem. However, we are starting to find that the large numbers of  
> new tests added to Boost CVS has caused a spike in the time required  
> to complete a full test run (we also run non incremental). We have a  
> renewed interest in getting this to work properly in order to get  
> the testing times under the 24+ hours it currently takes. Can anyone  
> point us in the right direction of where and what we should be  
> looking at? Any help would be appreciated.
>
I could be mistaken but I think we've dumped our AIX machines so I'm  
no longer able to debug this for you.  I'll check around and see if  
we've still got access to an AIX box.  I do wish you had mentioned  
this a few years ago when I first did this work..

-- Noel