[Cdash] Test memory consumption reported on CDash

[Julien Jomier]

Olivier,

Let me know if there is anything we can do to help with this on the 
CDash side. I'll let David Cole (in CC) reply for the memory probing in 
CTest.

Julien

On 19/04/2012 11:54, Olivier Pierard wrote:
> Thank you Andreas.
>
> I tried it this morning and it works.
>
> Now, I will also have a look at:
> - Automatic computation of memory cost with CTest (as done for clock
> time); but it seems quite difficult to do it in a portable way;
> - Additional columns in CDash for the test list of a given build
> (additional columns with 'max. memory status' and 'max. memory').
>
> Olivier
>
>> Hi Olivier,
>>
>> all you need to do is have your test print this line to STDOUT,
>> nothing else. In CDash, you will find this information then at the top
>> of the test output, next to the default info such as "Execution
>> Time(s)", "Command Line", and "Completion Status".
>>
>> An example can be found in the TestKernel module of the ITK 4.
>>
>> http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Core/TestKernel/include/itkTestDriverAfterTest.inc;h=62fdfb6979f4f6b82b6a927b18f07cd102260871;hb=e2705ed801e670c3ecf2572381af413ebfc8cb35
>>
>> http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=blob;f=Modules/Core/TestKernel/include/itkTestDriverInclude.h;h=b166bc31a3cf8d2c6335b93bf690e6025f6b38dc;hb=e2705ed801e670c3ecf2572381af413ebfc8cb35
>>
>> Search for "DartMeasurement" in these files and you will see how it is used.
>>
>> Andreas
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Olivier Pierard
>> <olivier.pierard at cenaero.be>  wrote:
>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> I come back to the report of memory consumption on the CDash as it is a
>>> key indicator for our applications.
>>>
>>> Given that:
>>> - In the output of each test, our software give us already the peak
>>> memory consumption used during the test (in Linux only - that's the
>>> value we would like to report in CDash)
>>> - On the mailing list
>>> (http://www.cmake.org/pipermail/cmake/2010-April/036574.html), I noticed
>>> that following output during execution could add the information in
>>> Test.xml file (not tested yet):
>>>
>>> <DartMeasurement name="memory" type="numeric/double">123</DartMeasurement>
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, links of examples are not valid anymore.
>>>
>>> My questions are:
>>> 1) If the message is printed in Test.xml file, would these additional
>>> results automatically be reported on the CDash (I guess, I'm dreaming)
>>> ?  If not, something should/could be modified in CDash source code to do
>>> so ?
>>> 2) What's the best way to add the 'DartMeasurement' line in the test
>>> output (not needed in the distributed version) ?  Use a CMake Variable
>>> which add a definition so that output message could be printed from the
>>> code ?
>>> 3) I guess, the best would be to compute the memory cost directly from
>>> CTest so that everyone could use it easily ?  Have you ever tried it (I
>>> found nothing on the bug tracker) ?  Do you have already some hints on
>>> how to do it ?  Do you know any portable way to do it ?
>>>
>>> Maybe, I'm completely wrong.  But, as it's an important feature for us,
>>> I would be ready to contribute if it's not an huge development.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Olivier
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
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