Closed Bug 493877 Opened 16 years ago Closed 9 years ago

all.sh should use parallelism

Categories

(NSS :: Test, defect, P2)

Product:
NSS
Component:
Test
Type:
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: julien.pierre, Assigned: slavomir.katuscak+mozilla)

Details

A single instance of all.sh currently takes about 2 hours on Windows, on a modern (2.4 GHz) 64-bit CPU, when running with ECC tests. On Solaris 10 with Niagara, it takes 6 hours. These times are unacceptable. all.sh should be able to take advantage of parallelism to run quicker. Even on a single-core, single CPU system, there is a lot of idle time overall due to I/O, so the running time of all.sh would be improved.
Severity: normal → major
OS: Solaris → All
Priority: -- → P2
Hardware: x86 → All
I don't think we'll ever do this. A developer working on a part of the library will focus on a single test suite usually. If you want to get all-OS all-test coverage you push to nss-try.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 9 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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