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# if defined and not "no" flexi-launcher will bypass launcher unless there is no
# match.
flexi-launcher yes</pre>
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<h1 id="_tricks">Tricks</h1>

<div class="paragraph"><p>This section is a compendium of a various useful tricks for debugging,
configuring and generally getting the most out of Megatest.</p></div>


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<h2 id="_limiting_your_running_jobs">Limiting your running jobs</h2>
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<div class="paragraph"><p>The following example will limit a test in the jobgroup "group1" to no more than 10 tests simultaneously.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>In your testconfig:</p></div>
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<h4 id="_launchers">launchers</h4>
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<div class="title">test/itempath &#8658; host-type</div>
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<pre>runfirst/sum% remote</pre>
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<h4 id="_miscellaneous_setup_items">Miscellaneous Setup Items</h4>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Attempt to rerun tests in "STUCK/DEAD", "n/a", "ZERO_ITEMS" states.</p></div>
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<div class="title">In megatest.config</div>
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reruns 5</pre>
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<h2 id="_the_testconfig_file">The testconfig File</h2>
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<h4 id="_skip_if_test_ran_more_recently_than_specified_time">Skip if test ran more recently than specified time</h4>
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<div class="title">Skip if this test has been run in the past fifteen minutes and 15 seconds.</div>
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rundelay 15m 15s</pre>
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<h4 id="_disks">Disks</h4>
<div class="paragraph"><p>A disks section in testconfig will override the disks section in
megatest.config. This can be used to allocate disks on a per-test or per item
basis.</p></div>
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<h4 id="_controlled_waiver_propagation">Controlled waiver propagation</h4>
<div class="paragraph"><p>If test is FAIL and previous test in run with same MT_TARGET is WAIVED then apply the following rules from the testconfig:
If a waiver check is specified in the testconfig apply the check and if it passes then set this FAIL to WAIVED</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Waiver check has two parts, 1) a list of waiver, rulename, filepatterns and 2) the rulename script spec (note that "diff" and "logpro" are predefined)</p></div>
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# This builtin rule is applied if a <waivername>.logpro file exists
# logpro diff %file1% %file2% | logpro %waivername%.logpro %waivername%.html</pre>
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<h3 id="_ezsteps">Ezsteps</h3>
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<div class="title">Example ezsteps with logpro rules</div>
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<pre>[ezsteps]
lookittmp   ls /tmp

[logpro]
lookittmp ;; Note: config file format supports multi-line entries where leading whitespace is removed from each line
  ;;     a blank line indicates the end of the block of text
  (expect:required in "LogFileBody" &gt; 0 "A file name that should never exist!" #/This is a awfully stupid file name that should never be found in the temp dir/)</pre>
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<div class="paragraph"><p>To transfer the environment to the next step you can do the following:</p></div>
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<pre>$MT_MEGATEST -env2file .ezsteps/${stepname}</pre>
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