Megatest

		      (loop (car tal)(cdr tal) loads proc-num phys-num core-num)))))))))))

(define (common:unix-ping hostname)
  (let ((res (system (conc "ping -c 1 " hostname " > /dev/null"))))
    (eq? res 0)))

(define (launch:is-test-alive host pid)
  (let* ((same-host (equal? host (get-host-name)))
	 (cmd (conc 
	       (if same-host "" (conc "ssh "host" "))
	       "pstree -A "pid)))
  (if (and host pid (not (equal? host "n/a")))
      (let* ((cmd (conc "ssh " host " pstree -A " pid))
	     (output (with-input-from-pipe cmd read-lines)))
	(debug:print 2 *default-log-port* "Running " cmd " received " output)
	(if (eq? (length output) 0)
	   #f
	   #t))
    (if (and host pid
	     (not (equal? host "n/a")))
	(let* ((output (with-input-from-pipe cmd read-lines)))
	  (debug:print 2 *default-log-port* "Running " cmd " received " output)
	  (if (eq? (length output) 0)
	      #f
	      #t))
      #t))
	#t))) ;; assuming bad query is about a live test is likely not the right thing to do?

(define (common:get-num-cpus remote-host)
  (let* ((actual-host (or remote-host (get-host-name))))
    ;; hosts had better not be changing the number of cpus too often!
    (or (hash-table-ref/default *numcpus-cache* actual-host #f)
	(let* ((numcpus (or (common:get-cached-info actual-host "num-cpus" age: (+ 2592000 (pseudo-random-integer 3600)))
			    (let* ((proc   (lambda ()