Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: HOWTO: benchmarking monotone (was Re: "memory exhausted" error for 'mtn list status' command)

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 10:05:31PM +0200, Markus Schiltknecht wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> >The one in net.venge.monotone.contrib.benchmark.  The thread is at:
> >  
> > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.monotone.devel/7524/focus=7527
> 
> I'm currently playing around with that branch. Two things, a minor one:
> 
> $ ./drop_caches
> Trying /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches... (requires Linux 2.6.16+)
> $ uname -srmo
> Linux 2.6.19-rc1 i686 GNU/Linux

Oh, the script isn't smart enough to actually _check_ for Linux
2.6.16+, it just spits that warning unconditionally so if it then
fails, you might have a guess why.  If you can make the message
clearer, by all means.

Overall the tool is not really polished up for end-users :-).

> And the python traceback below. I didn't look into the source, yet...

*cough* speaking of lack of polish.  It might well just be that it's
failing to resolve a path correctly (hence the "No such file or
directory" message in the middle there) or something like that.  Path
resolution is a bit hackish all through the benchmark code.  OTOH it
could be a bug.  Dunno :-).  Does it go away if you give a full path
to the mtn executables, though?

-- Nathaniel

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