commit b7dc0a8f02f5cb366aa80438678b4245d001481f Author: Damian Johnson atagar@torproject.org Date: Tue Jun 6 10:14:36 2017 -0700

Reduce priority of background tests

Dropping the niceness priority of our background tests so they don't compete with our main testing thread so much. Not a lot, but drops the runtime for me from 27.5s to 26.4s (4% faster). --- stem/util/test_tools.py | 2 ++ test/task.py | 1 + 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/stem/util/test_tools.py b/stem/util/test_tools.py index 43befd4..9f4fff4 100644 --- a/stem/util/test_tools.py +++ b/stem/util/test_tools.py @@ -110,6 +110,8 @@ class AsyncTest(object):

def run(self, *runner_args, **kwargs): def _wrapper(conn, runner, args): + os.nice(12) + try: runner(*args) if args else runner() conn.send(AsyncResult('success', None)) diff --git a/test/task.py b/test/task.py index 63a9f20..c647736 100644 --- a/test/task.py +++ b/test/task.py @@ -170,6 +170,7 @@ class Task(object): try: if self._is_background_task: def _run_wrapper(conn, runner, args): + os.nice(15) conn.send(runner(*args) if args else runner()) conn.close()