Prep for Wineconf - testing

[Huw Davies]

On 1 Sep 2015, at 06:14, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> Francois Gouget <fgouget at free.fr> writes:
> 
>> But it's possible the settings on the winehq.org server are different. 
>> Only Alexandre has access to that machine. If so, then I guess the 
>> experiment would call for trying the following settings:
>> 
>> $MaxRevertingVMs = 1;
>> $MaxRevertsWhileRunningVMs = 0;
>> $MaxActiveVMs = 1;
>> 
>> I'm a bit skeptical that it would make much of a difference.
> 
> OK I changed it, let me know how it goes.

Early indications are that this does indeed help
See:
http://test.winehq.org/data/tests/msi:action.html
(ignore the XP failures, they're not testbot's)

and:
http://test.winehq.org/data/tests/gdi32:font.html

I don't think it's entirely surprising given the long revert
times we're seeing.

It seems to me that adding more hardware (to have fewer
VMs per host) is the pragmatic way forward.  Sure, we can
argue that the long revert times are crazy and should be fixed,
but nobody is going to do this anytime soon.  Of course
somebody has to setup the said new hardware and reconfigure
testbot to use it, but hopefully that's something we know how to do.

Huw.