[vtk-developers] Addition flag for valgrind

[Kyle Lutz]

On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 9:35 AM, David E DeMarle
<dave.demarle at kitware.com> wrote:
> But valgrind is getting slow. I may have to remove that flag from karego-at
> valgrind.
>
> --track-origins slows the tests down significantly - as evidenced by the new
>>500s timeout test failures on the valgrind results
> (http://open.cdash.org/viewDynamicAnalysis.php?buildid=2836814). There is
> some free time available overnight on that machine, so I'm checking how much
> extra time the failing tests require. I had kind of wanted that time though
> to turn on more tests...
>
> What is our preference:
> 1) keep the flag, increase the timeout, and continue to test what we do
> 2) disable just these slow tests on that machine and possibly turn on other
> tests (MPI, Qt, Tcl, Python)
> 3) remove the flag and turn on more tests
>
> I'm leaning toward 1. When we get and setup a newer test machine it should
> be less of an issue and we can have out cake and eat it too.

+1 for #1.