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authorAymeric Augustin <aymeric.augustin@m4x.org>2015-09-10 16:12:36 +0200
committerAymeric Augustin <aymeric.augustin@m4x.org>2015-09-10 16:12:36 +0200
commitb1a29541e5d37c03becde6c84e793766ef23395c (patch)
treed3d04058e44a7080d3fcaa637bb3afa31ba4c3e4 /docs/internals/contributing/writing-code
parentacb833081dd3abca3bc62753103690f23fb3f0ec (diff)
parenta32206b3650c5ce18c0a06eb0eb40abc8becfa58 (diff)
Merge pull request #4761 from aaugustin/parallelize-tests-attempt-1
Fixed #20461 -- Allowed running tests in parallel.
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@@ -284,3 +284,16 @@ combine this with ``--verbosity=2``, all SQL queries will be output::
.. versionadded:: 1.8
The ``--reverse`` and ``--debug-sql`` options were added.
+
+By default tests are run in parallel with one process per core. You can adjust
+this behavior with the ``--parallel`` option::
+
+ $ ./runtests.py basic --parallel=1
+
+You can also use the ``DJANGO_TEST_PROCESSES`` environment variable for this
+purpose.
+
+.. versionadded:: 1.9
+
+ Support for running tests in parallel and the ``--parallel`` option were
+ added.