@@ -8,10 +8,15 @@
 [refareas]
 area1 /tmp/oldarea/megatest
 
 [include config/mt_include_1.config]
 
+[dashboard]
+pre-command  xterm -geometry 180x20 -e "
+post-command |& tee results.log ;echo Press any key to continue;bash -c 'read -n 1 -s'" &
+testsort -event_time
+
 [misc]
 home #{shell readlink -f $MT_RUN_AREA_HOME}
 parent #{shell readlink -f $MT_RUN_AREA_HOME/..}
 
 [tests-paths]
@@ -20,14 +25,16 @@
 [setup]
 # Set launchwait to no to use the more agressive code that does not wait for the launch to complete before proceeding
 # this may save a few milliseconds on launching tests
 # launchwait no
 waivercommentpatt ^WW\d+ [a-z].*
+incomplete-timeout 1
+
+# yes, anything else is no
+run-wait yes
 
-# Use http instead of direct filesystem access
-# transport http
-# transport fs
+
 
 # If set to "default" the old code is used. Otherwise defaults to 200 or uses
 # numeric value given.
 #
 runqueue 20
@@ -51,11 +58,11 @@
 # or for hard links
 
 # testcopycmd cp --remove-destination -rlv TEST_SRC_PATH/. TEST_TARG_PATH/.
 
 # FULL or 2, NORMAL or 1, OFF or 0
-synchronous OFF
+synchronous 0
 # Throttle roughly scales the db access milliseconds to seconds delay
 throttle 0.2
 # Max retries allows megatest to re-check that a tests status has changed
 # as tests can have transient FAIL status occasionally
 maxretries 20
@@ -70,20 +77,25 @@
 # override the html viewer launch command
 #
 # htmlviewercmd firefox -new-window 
 htmlviewercmd konqueror
 
+# -runtests automatically deletes the records for tests with the listed states on starting up a run allowing them to re-run
+#     (nb// this is in addition to NOT_STARTED which is automatically re-run)
+#
+allow-auto-rerun INCOMPLETE ZERO_ITEMS
+# could add: STUCK STUCK/DEAD UNKNOWN KILLED KILLREQ PREQ_DISCARD
+
 [validvalues]
 state start end 0 1 - 2
 status pass fail n/a 0 1 running - 2
 
 # These are set before all tests, override them 
 # in the testconfig [pre-launch-env-overrides] section
 [env-override]
 
 # This variable is honored by the loadrunner script. The value is in percent
-# a value of 200 will stop new jobs from starting.
 MAX_ALLOWED_LOAD 200
 
 # MT_XTERM_CMD overrides the terminal command
 # MT_XTERM_CMD xterm -bg lightgreen -fg black
 
@@ -104,30 +116,49 @@
 
 WRAPPEDVAR This var should have the work blah thrice: \
 blah \
 blah
 
+MAX_ALLOWED_LOAD 200
 # XTERM   [system xterm]
 # RUNDEAD [system exit 56]
 
 [server]
+
+# Use http instead of direct filesystem access
+transport http
+# transport fs
+# transport nmsg
+
+synchronous 0
 
 # If the server can't be started on this port it will try the next port until
 # it succeeds
 port 9080
 
 # This server will keep running this number of hours after last access. 
 # Three minutes is 0.05 hours
 # timeout 0.025
-timeout 0.25
+timeout 0.061
+
+# Server is required - slower but more resistant to Sqlite issues.
+required yes
+
+# Start server when average query takes longer than this
+# server-query-threshold 55500
+server-query-threshold -1
+
+# daemonize yes
+# hostname #{scheme (get-host-name)}
 
 ## disks are:
 ## name host:/path/to/area
 ## -or-
 ## name /path/to/area
 [disks]
 disk0 /foobarbazz
+disk1 not-a-disk
 [include config/mt_include_2.config]
 
 [include #{getenv USER}_testing.config]
 
 [jobgroups]