Re: [creduce-dev] parallel tuning

[Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>]

On 2015.11.17 at 18:49 +0300, Konstantin Tokarev wrote:
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> 17.11.2015, 18:47, "Eric Eide" <eeide@cs.utah.edu>:
> > John Regehr <regehr@cs.utah.edu> writes:
> >
> >>  But also, I think it's most friendly to provide a good default for the common
> >>  case of a single-socket Core-i7, not some quad-socket monster Xeon thing.
> >
> > Oh sure, I agree.
> >
> > But we can do both? If C-Reduce detects that it is running on a monster, it
> > can use a monsterish default.
> 
> FWIW, someone running such monster probably
> a) knows what he is doing
> b) can have other tasks running on some cores in parallel

Yes. I run creduce on a 2x10x8 ppc64le machine often and I definitely
don't want to use 160 tests in parallel...

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Markus