On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Garrett Cooper <yaneg...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Jul 6, 2014, at 9:06 PM, Craig Rodrigues <rodr...@freebsd.org> wrote: > >> On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 8:04 PM, George Neville-Neil <g...@neville-neil.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I've coded up a system to allow you to control multiple other systems for >>> use in testing. >>> >>> https://github.com/gvnn3/conductor >>> >>> >> Cool! The architecture you have is similar to that of the SPECsfs >> benchmark test ( http://www.spec.org/sfs2008/ ) >> which involves a "coordinator node" and multiple "client nodes" which >> direct NFS network >> traffic towards a System Under Test (SUT). Garrett Cooper actually set up >> the original testbed >> that I am using now at iXsystems. :) >> >> It would be cool to put together tools like Jenkins, Kyua, and conductor to >> do more advanced testing >> of FreeBSD before the project puts out releases. > > Agreed. The only thing that I have some concern about is the reinventing of > the wheel in python. multiprocessing Managers are one viable option that’s > existed since python 2.6; there’s a learning curve though, and you’ll run > into problems with pickling some objects because the pickle protocol is far > from complete (example: > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1816958/cant-pickle-type-instancemethod-when-using-pythons-multiprocessing-pool-ma > ); you might run into this problems regardless because you’re serializing > objects using pickle instead of using dill (or using a simpler serialization > method like JSON). Fabric has a framework that’s nice to use if you have ssh > capability. There are other frameworks that use twisted conch I think too > (another library that implements ssh access). > > Isilon has a framework they use, but it’s very customized to their > infrastructure and product assumptions and it’s in need of an overhaul :(. > > -Garrett > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
This also looks as an interesting option : https://codespeak.net/execnet/ I haven't used personally, but judging from py-test (it's the same author) it should be good :) --Nikolay _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
