[Swan-dev] test runs seems slow

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: Antony Antony <antony at phenome.org>

| The pyhton blow up was my mistake, sorry about that.

No problem.  It doesn't interfere with the crude way I look at the
test results (testing/utils/pluto-testlist-scan.sh).

| Now on to run time. Lately, with the introduction of Auth NULL, we added 
| many tests. Now a testrun takes over 10 hours for me. Including greping 
| through historic logs.  I am working on some optimizations, so grep only 
| the last run. However, a full runs of 354 tests take 8+ hours. Many 
| tests have sleep 1 to 5 minutes in them.

My recollection is that the greps take too long but it still doesn't
add up to a significant part of 10 hours.

I don't think we added a lot of tests between my most recent run and
the run before.  And yet the time went from 8.5 hours to 10 hours.
I'm superstitiously wondering if my machine is getting bogged down
with some kind of barnacles.

| See the change in runtime over the year.
| http://hal.phenome.org:8081/results/

Yeah, there has been some change in the last week.  Not the amount I
see, but some.