Re: [RFA] Add more parallelization to gdb.base testing

Joel Brobecker
2012-06-18T16:48:46Z

> This patch speeds up gdb testing at -j6 on my machine from 7mins to 4mins.
> I didn't want to get too carried away here, this felt like a good compromise.

Love the idea of adding more parallelization. FWIW, I run the AdaCore
testsuite at -j24 on my 3.5 year old quad-core. I start getting
diminishing benefits after -j20, but even at -j24, the machine is
still completely responsive. When doing testing with gdbserver or Qemu,
I usually use -j16 to -j20 to avoid some spurious timeouts. So I think
there is still room for more parallelization if we want to.

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Joel