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I've used paramiko + expect to automate distributed benchmarking + results gathering. I can say that while it ultimately worked, Curse That Thing In Particular.

I've used paramiko + expect to automate distributed benchmarking + results gathering. I can say that while it ultimately worked, Curse That Thing In Particular. It was so so so fiddly to get everything working, and very fragile + output-dependent. https://github.com/ip2k/Mad-Science?files=1 https://github.com/ip2k/Mad-Science?files=1 I wrote this a long time ago and it's ugly. It totally worked and let our company find more optimal hosting configs.

lamontcg 10y ago
> while it ultimately worked, Curse That Thing In Particular "Things Only 90s SysAdmins Will Remember" Expect is mostly a tool of last resort when a utility has silly prompts that you can't bypass by hitting it with command line options like `-y` and stuff.
knownothing 10y ago
What does the `?files=1` bit do?
- wyldfire 10y ago
  It appears to omit the repo's description and some of the buttons.