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

[Petr Viktorin]

On 06/17/2013 09:10 PM, Dmitri Pal wrote:
> 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

I hope Beaker does something like you described. The slow part is only 
the XML backend, which gets selected if you run BeakerLib without Beaker.
We could write (or find?) a faster logging backend but it's not really 
necessary. Without Beaker the BeakerLib logging is not of much use anyway.

-- 
Petr³