Marcin Juszkiewicz <marcin.juszkiew...@linaro.org> writes: > Hi > > LAVA is good for doing some tests but every time I use it I wonder why > it is so slow. So I looked more at problem. > > Job which I started is going on pandaboard for 48 minutes already. So > far it did nothing related with tests which I want to run. Instead if > fetched some image, booted and started installing lot of Python packages...
It's even worse on fast models... > This got me to idea - why not make *-lava variants of images which would > have all packages needed by LAVA infrastructure preinstalled? It would > take some minutes of Jenkins but less then LAVA one probably. Especially > when bigger set of jobs is to be run. > > Opinions? This idea has certainly occurred to me too. As Alexander says, our android image effectively do this already. Another approach, as discussed recently, is to not install lava-test itself on the board. If all you had to do was copy a statically linked binary to the board for test installation, that would be much faster... Cheers, mwh _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
