Debugging parallel nose tests?
Roy Smith
roy at panix.com
Fri May 24 07:47:45 EDT 2013
On May 24, 2013, at 5:05 AM, Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> In article <mailman.2027.1369333910.3114.python-list at python.org>,
>> Dave Angel <davea at 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 :-)
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Roy Smith
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