Re: Recording test runtimes with the buildfarm

On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 at 02:13, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> I have in the past scraped the latter results and tried to make sense of
> them.  They are *mighty* noisy, even when considering just one animal
> that I know to be running on a machine with little else to do.

Do you recall if you looked at the parallel results or the serially
executed ones?

I imagine that the parallel ones will have much more noise since we
run the tests up to 20 at a time. I imagine probably none, or at most
not many of the animals have enough CPU cores not to be context
switching a lot during those the parallel runs.  I thought the serial
ones would be better but didn't have an idea of they'd be good enough
to be useful.

David