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

[David Cole]

1k is perfect for 99%+ of all tests.

The rest (the 1%, the few) should emit CTEST_FULL_OUTPUT on stdout to
preserve their full output even when they pass.


On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com>wrote:

> 1 meg is way too large. I already have a patch that BTW found an error
> in the 1 meg test.
>
> But I think that 1K is too small.
>
> Let's wait until I compete my analysis. I'm in the measure stage of DMAIC.
>
> On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Bill Hoffman <bill.hoffman at kitware.com>
> wrote:
> > On 10/3/2011 11:08 AM, Williams, Norman K wrote:
> >>
> >> On 10/3/11 9:55 AM, "Bill Hoffman"<bill.hoffman at kitware.com>  wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 10/1/2011 11:55 AM, Bill Lorensen wrote:
> >>> Remember, HALF of
> >>> the ITK tests are sending more output than ALL the other projects
> hosted
> >>> on the CDash server.
> >>
> >> Some people have gotten the idea that more output is better. For me the
> >> perfect test would produce no output on success, and as much USEFUL
> output
> >> as possible on failure. Otherwise it's a waste of my brain's bandwidth,
> >> which I care about more than machine loads and network bandwidth.
> >>
> > I agree with that as well. Very verbose passing test output is mostly
> > useless IMO, which is why ctest caps it at 1K.  More is not better... :)
> >  Changing the default to 1meg arbitrarily for all ITK tests seems like
> over
> > kill to me.  Who looks at 1meg of text output...  :)
> >
> >
> >
> > -Bill
> >
> >
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