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| author | Robert Collins <robertc@robertcollins.net> | 2010-12-06 21:24:32 +1300 |
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| committer | Robert Collins <robertc@robertcollins.net> | 2010-12-06 21:24:32 +1300 |
| commit | b1fac98037f00afff7ef3df43ff79d46a9352bc0 (patch) | |
| tree | 233168a6a56f9768b173b8c4cf06d13e3762f4e4 /doc | |
| parent | a34d7ba839e778c5ac34d69e78cd3eaee417ba81 (diff) | |
| download | testrepository-b1fac98037f00afff7ef3df43ff79d46a9352bc0.tar.gz | |
Improve MANUAL for parallel testing.
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/MANUAL.txt b/doc/MANUAL.txt index 32990c4..bdd8c6c 100644 --- a/doc/MANUAL.txt +++ b/doc/MANUAL.txt @@ -87,8 +87,10 @@ then testr is able to run your tests in parallel:: $ testr run --parallel -This will first list the tests, partition them, and then invoke multiple test -runners. +This will first list the tests, partition the tests into one partition per CPU +on the machine, and then invoke multiple test runners at the same time, with +each test runner getting one partition. Currently the partitioning algorithm +is a simple round-robin, and the CPU detection is only implemented for Linux. Repositories ~~~~~~~~~~~~ |