How To Do Things
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Tricks
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This section is a compendium of a various useful tricks for debugging,
configuring and generally getting the most out of Megatest.
Limiting your running jobs
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The following example will limit a test in the jobgroup "group1" to no more than 10 tests simultaneously.
In your testconfig:
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[test_meta]
jobgroup group1
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In your megatest.config:
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[jobgroups]
group1 10
custdes 4
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Limiting Job Runtime
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runtimlim can be set in megatest.config (affects all tests),
runconfigs (modifies for all tests based on a run) or in the
testconfig (affects only that test). The default in all cases is unlimited.
.megatest.config or runconfig
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[setup]
# Default runtimelim 1d 1h 1m 10s
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runtimelim 20m
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.testconfig
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[requirements]
runtimelim 1h 5m
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Debugging Tricks
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Examining The Environment
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During Config File Processing
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Organising Your Tests and Tasks
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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[tests-paths]
1 #{get misc parent}/simplerun/tests
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[setup]
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The runscript method is a brute force way to run scripts where the
user is responsible for setting STATE and STATUS
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runscript main.csh
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Debugging Server Problems
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sudo lsof -i
sudo netstat -lptu
sudo netstat -tulpn
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