[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 77335] [Qt][NRWT] Run each DRT in it's own xvfb

Wed Apr 25 14:31:40 PDT 2012

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77335

--- Comment #19 from Ojan Vafai <ojan at chromium.org>  2012-04-25 14:31:40 PST ---
(In reply to comment #17)
> (In reply to comment #16)
> > (In reply to comment #13)
> > > Odd that you'r eusing xvfb for isolation.  I guess it works.
> > > 
> > > Chromium has code for this, for running tests in cr-linux-ews.  But it's in a different place.  I believe we run the whole session in a single xvfb.
> > 
> > If that's true, we should change it. Running tests in parallel is blocked on the xvfb process if there's only one. I thought we changed to used multiple xvfbs ages ago, but I don't see the code now.
> 
> See the earlier comments on this bug ... the problems arise on the Qt and Gtk ports from using the shared clipboard; chromium's DRT uses a Mock clipboard and so doesn't have to worry about this.

We don't need it for correctness, but chromium should use multiple xvfbs because the tests will run faster because they won't be gated on the single xvfb process.

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