[pygr-notify] [pygr commit] r184 - Requirements

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Author: marecki
Date: Wed Apr 15 16:28:42 2009
New Revision: 184

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    wiki/MegatestSetup.wiki

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Requirements

Modified: wiki/MegatestSetup.wiki
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--- wiki/MegatestSetup.wiki	(original)
+++ wiki/MegatestSetup.wiki	Wed Apr 15 16:28:42 2009
@@ -4,10 +4,27 @@

  The purpose of this page is to provide complete instructions for everyone  
wishing to run megatests on his/her machine - from obtaining the necessary  
data to actual running of megatests.

-*WARNING: this document is now being rewritten to acommodate recent  
changes to megatest code. Large parts of it may be outdated.*
+*WARNING: this document is now being rewritten to acommodate recent  
changes to megatest code. Large parts of it may either still be outdated or  
conflict with each other.*


  = Details =
+
+== Requirements ==
+
+You will need the following to be able to run megatests:
+
+ # A computer system you don't mind placing under heavy load, particularly  
I/O-wise, on a regular basis. Instructions on this page assume a box  
running Linux, which so far is the only operating system we have tried  
running megatests on; Unix(-based) systems should also be supported out of  
the box, Windows should in principle work but will need either Cygwin or a  
custom runner script. _Please let us know about the outcome of attempts of  
running on non-Linux boxes!_
+
+ # A MySQL server with write access to. You'll probably want to use a  
local, dedicated instance to minimise security implications of the above as  
well as possible influence of database-access delays on test results;
+
+ # A (relative) lot of disc space. At present megatests take up about 200  
GB when idle and up to 600 GB while running;
+
+ # Everything needed by Pygr itself;
+
+ # (optional) A local pygr.Data XML-RPC server, so that the data-download  
test is not affected by the quality of your connection to the UCLA one.
+
+
+XXX

  == Structure of the directory tree ==