Re: i386 and amd64 testbeds now use NVMM

[Andreas Gustafsson <gson%gson.org@localhost>]

Jukka Ruohonen wrote:
> > This reduces the time it takes to run the test suite from more than
> > 20 hours to about 3-4 hours.  Many thanks to Maxime Villard for making
> > this possible by writing NVMM.
> 
> Does this mean that the amount of test runs increases accordingly (i.e.,
> to about six runs per 24h)?

It's a bit more complicated than that.  Since multiple source versions
are tested in parallel, the i386 tests have been achieving a
throughput of more than six runs per 24 h even before the switch to
NVMM.  Using NVMM frees up a significant amount of CPU, but the builds
and the sparc tests still use as much CPU as before.  So the overall
throughput of the server has increased, but by a smaller factor than
the latency of the i386 and amd64 tests.
-- 
Andreas Gustafsson, gson%gson.org@localhost