Frequently Asked Questions

How to speed up the test process?

Warning

Beware, when talking about speed a lot a thing have to be taken in consideration. Indeed here is a non exaustive list of things which fluctuate testing speed.

  • Bandwidth.
  • DNS Server response time.
  • CPU.
  • ISP blocking a big amount of connection to the outside world.
  • Our databases management (do not apply for MySQL and MariaDB format).
  • Amount of data to test.
  • …

I have a dedicated server or machine just for PyFunceble

Simply increase the number of maximal workers PyFunceble is allowed to use throught the --max-workers argument.

By default the number of workers is equal to:

CPU CORES * 5

meaning that if you have 8 CPU cores, the value will be automatically set to 40.

Warning

Keep in mind that the --max-workers mostly - if not only - affects the tester threads. Because we want to safely write the files, we still need a single thread which read the submitted results and generate the outputs.

The reason we did that with 4.0.0 is because, we don’t want to have a wrongly formatted output file.