[Insight-developers] Kitware Robots still appear to be dead

[Bill Lorensen]

I already have a patch that fixes errors in some test that were
producing way too much output. Let's wait until I complete my analysis
before we debate the use of passing test output (which I look at
frequently).


On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Bill Hoffman <bill.hoffman at kitware.com> wrote:
> On 10/1/2011 11:55 AM, Bill Lorensen wrote:
>>
>> Is there a way to profile CTest? Are we certain that the delays we see
>> are due to test output length? Do we even know if the test output
>> length makes any difference at all?
>
> Well, it certainly makes a big difference in DB size and bandwidth usage
> from the clients.  Is this stuff really looked at?   Remember, HALF of the
> ITK tests are sending more output than ALL the other projects hosted on the
> CDash server.  What is the use case for seeing all of the output for a
> passing test?  Can we be more strategic?  Put the information that you
> really need at the top 1 or 2K of output?
>
> We will do some more examination of the issue, but either way I would like
> to keep the data size as small as possible.
>
> -Bill
>