[petsc-dev] nightlybuilds (next vs next-tmp)

[Matthew Knepley]

On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 8:56 PM, Richard Tran Mills <rtmills at anl.gov> wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 9:54 AM, Smith, Barry F. <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> > On Nov 12, 2017, at 11:21 AM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 12:17 PM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov>
>> wrote:
>> > On Sun, 12 Nov 2017, Matthew Knepley wrote:
>> >
>> > >
>> > > Have we tried histogramming test times? It would be nice to know how
>> much
>> > > cumulative
>> > > time it takes to run 37%, 67%, 95%, etc.
>> >
>> > I'm not sure what 'histogramming test time' means.
>> >
>> > The below looked like cumulative times over all tests. I want the time
>> for each test, and then
>> > we bin them into say 10s wide bins and see which ones are taking the
>> most time.
>>
>>   WE FREAKING NEED TO CONVERT TO THE NEW TEST HARNESS TO DO THIS, then it
>> is easy.
>>
>>   So everyone, please, instead of spending twenty minutes a day sending
>> and reading email about testing spend 20 minutes a day converting examples
>> from the old tests to the new harness!!!!!
>>
>
> For those of us who have no idea how to do this, could someone please give
> me a pointer or two on where to look for an example or two or some
> documentation? I should probably be spending a few minutes a day converting
> some examples, but I don't know how or where to start.
>

There is a manual chapter on the test system, but for cut & paste
semantics, you can look at SNES which has a lot of converted examples.
Basically, you take each test entry from the makefile, and move it into the
source file itself.

  Matt


> --Richard
>
>
>>
>> >
>> >    Matt
>> >
>> > All logs record time. And Karl's script summarizes those times on the
>> > dashboard. For eg:
>> >
>> > http://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/petsc/nightlylogs/archive/2017/11
>> /11/maint.html
>> >
>> > If you want to do some analysis on those times - you can grab the
>> > [historical] logs and run the required analysis.
>> >
>> > Satish
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their
>> experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their
>> experiments lead.
>> > -- Norbert Wiener
>> >
>> > https://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/
>>
>>
>


-- 
What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their
experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their
experiments lead.
-- Norbert Wiener

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