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bug#13478: Don't deprecate or remove 'serial-tests'


From: Richard W.M. Jones
Subject: bug#13478: Don't deprecate or remove 'serial-tests'
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 18:16:48 +0000
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-12-10)

For some reason this is marked as deprecated.

This is bad: parallel tests are fine for tiny tests which use only a
little bit of memory.  However if your tests are very large and use a
lot of RAM then running them in parallel can cause them to fail
unnecessarily.

The libguestfs test suite is exactly like this: parallel tests causes
it to fail because you end up running multiple parallel VMs.  Serial
tests is the right way to go for us.

Rich.

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