Re: [Texttest-users] More parallel tests than CPU cores

[Geoff B. <geo...@gm...>]

Hi Peter,

I think you're probably right that this isn't possible right now, you have
pretty much tried what I would have tried. I'll try and fix this sometime
soon.

Regards,
Geoff

On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 1:46 PM Peter Rosell <pet...@gm...> wrote:

> Hi,
> How can I run more parallel tests than the number of CPU cores?
>
> I have a test suite with a lot of tests that run against an external
> system and that makes the test fixture wait for the result for an amount of
> time. When running I get the number of parallel tests to be the same as the
> number of cores. To be more efficient I want to increase the number of
> parallel tests, but I can find how. I have tried setting the
> queue_system_max_capacity, but I have only been able to lower the number of
> parallel tests, not increase.
>
> In the documentation (
> http://texttest.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=documentation_4_0&n=running_tests_in_parallel)
> it says
>
>> If you run TextTest on a multicore machine, it will run as many tests in
>> parallel as you have cores on the machine.
>
>  and
>
>> To steer how many tests will be run simultaneously, you can set
>> "queue_system_max_capacity" in your config file also.
>
>
>  I just had a quick look into the code and if it's this line that sets the
> limit I'm out of luck here.
> https://github.com/texttest/texttest/blob/cb421b1b045441da9440eca4812f9bd8500bd5d8/texttestlib/queuesystem/local.py#L39
> Maybe it could be possible to add an override in the config file.
>
> Best regards
> Peter
>
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