[vtk-developers] Addition flag for valgrind

[Bill Lorensen]

+1 for #1

On Wednesday, March 6, 2013, Kyle Lutz wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 9:35 AM, David E DeMarle
> <dave.demarle at kitware.com <javascript:;>> 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.
>


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