[Insight-developers] ITK Modular: CTEST_CUSTOM_MAXIMUM_PASSED_TEST_OUTPUT_SIZE ignored

[David Cole]

Is 10k too small?
100k?

The idea behind truncating the passing test results is that nobody
cares (and never looks at) what the exact output was for a passed
test. If you want the output of a passing test, you can just run it
locally to see the full output.

If you need the full output from an individual test temporarily to see
its results on another platform you can print "CTEST_FULL_OUTPUT" in
the stdout output of a test. (Then, after you've seen the output you
need on the other platform, you can revert that change, and not save
all that near useless output in CDash again...)

I'm ok with whatever the consensus is here, but I thought I'd mention
the reasoning behind the default logic to see what people think.

I'd be happier with something closer to the 1k - 10k range, but will
be happy to set it to whatever most people think is necessary for
ITK's dashboard results.


Let me know, thanks,
David



On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 1 meg may be too big, but 1k is certainly too small.
>
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 12:26 PM, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com> wrote:
>> The file that is actually used for the CTestCustom is:
>>
>>  CMake/CTestCustom.cmake.in
>>  # (line 124 of CMakeLists.txt)
>>
>> Which does not have a maximum passed test output size. Not sure why it
>> changed to *not* include the other one -- looks like the .ctest
>> version used to be included by the .cmake version. We should just
>> clean this up to use only one custom file.
>>
>> But: do we really want up to 1 Megabyte of each passing test's output
>> to be stored in CDash?
>>
>> (I'm just offering my diagnosis here... I don't have time to work on
>> any change for this immediately. I can put it on my list for later,
>> though, if nobody else beats me to it.)
>>
>>
>> David
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> The CTEST_CUSTOM_MAXIMUM_PASSED_TEST_OUTPUT_SIZE is set to 1000000,
>>> yet passing tests are reporting:
>>> http://www.cdash.org/CDash/testDetails.php?test=87831317&build=906357
>>>
>>> The file ITK/CMake/CtestCustom.ctest.in has the value:
>>> SET(CTEST_CUSTOM_MAXIMUM_PASSED_TEST_OUTPUT_SIZE 1000000
>>>
>>> Bill
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