[Freeipa-devel] [PATCHES] 0227-0229 freeipa-tests package & Beaker integration plugin

[Dmitri Pal]

On 06/17/2013 11:08 AM, Petr Viktorin wrote:
>>> ipa-run-tests --with-beakerlib is horribly slow for me, is that
>>> expected?
>
> Yes. For every logged line, BeakerLib's default logging backend starts
> up Python, parses a XML file, appends the line, and writes the XML out
> again. So especially with longer runs it's really slow.

Is there any way to solve this problem?
For example send the output over the DBUS to a special service that
would have the python already loaded and would do the appending to the
files and writing the output.
Also there can be an optimization that it would not save the file up
until the change affects a different file.

The logic would be:

loop:
   If do not have an open output file open one and keep it in memory
   Read a request for update until receive a special message for
termination or a signal, then break out of the loop
   If the request for update for the same file update the file
   Else save currently open file and start a new one, add data to the
newly started file
end
close currently open file
  
If we need this cross systems we can do AMQP. I bet this would be powers
of magnitude faster.

-- 
Thank you,
Dmitri Pal

Sr. Engineering Manager for IdM portfolio
Red Hat Inc.


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