Megatest

	(max-allowed (string->number (or (configf:lookup *configdat* "setup" "max-logfiles") "300")))) ;; name -> age
    (if (not (directory-exists? "logs"))(create-directory "logs"))
    (directory-fold 
     (lambda (file rem)
       (handle-exceptions
	exn
	(begin
	  (debug:print-info 2 *default-log-port* "unable to rotate log " file ", probably handled by another process, this is safe to ignore.")
	  (debug:print 2 *default-log-port* " message: " ((condition-property-accessor 'exn 'message) exn))
	  ;; (print-call-chain (current-error-port)) ;; 
	  )
	(let* ((fullname  (conc "logs/" file))
	       (mod-time  (file-modification-time fullname))
	       (file-age  (- (current-seconds) mod-time)))
	  (hash-table-set! all-files file mod-time)
	  (if (or (and (string-match "^.*.log" file)
		       (> (file-size fullname) 200000))
		  (and (string-match "^server-.*.log" file)

;; 			    (set! cpu-load newval))))))
;; 	      (car load-res))
;;     cpu-load))

;; get values from cached info from dropping file in logs dir
;;  e.g. key is host and dtype is normalized-load
;;
(define (common:get-cached-info key dtype #!key (age 10))
  (if *toppath*
      (let* ((fullpath (conc *toppath* "/.sysdata/" key "-" dtype ".log")))
	(if (and (file-exists? fullpath)
		 (file-read-access? fullpath))
	    (handle-exceptions
	     exn
	     #f
	     (debug:print 2 *default-log-port* "reading file " fullpath)
	     (let ((real-age (- (current-seconds)(file-change-time fullpath)))) 
	       (if (< real-age age)
		   (with-input-from-file fullpath read)
		   (begin
		     (debug:print-info 2 *default-log-port* "file " fullpath " is too old (" real-age" seconds) to trust, skipping reading it")
		     #f))))
	    (begin
	      (debug:print 2 *default-log-port* "not reading file " fullpath)
	      #f)))
      #f))
 
(define (common:write-cached-info key dtype dat)

					 numcpu)
				     (read-line))))))
	       (result (if remote-host
			   (with-input-from-pipe 
			       (conc "ssh " remote-host " cat /proc/cpuinfo")
			     proc)
			   (with-input-from-file "/proc/cpuinfo" proc))))
	  (if (and (number? result)
		   (> result 0))
	      (common:write-cached-info actual-host "num-cpus" result))
	  result))))

;; wait for normalized cpu load to drop below maxload
;;
(define (common:wait-for-normalized-load maxload msg remote-host #!optional (rem-tries 5))
  (let ((num-cpus (common:get-num-cpus remote-host)))
    (if num-cpus

		      maxload-in
		      (max maxload-in 0.5))) ;; so maxload must be greater than 0.5 for now BUG - FIXME?
	 (first   (car loadavg))
	 (next    (cadr loadavg))
	 (adjload (* maxload (max 1 numcpus))) ;; possible bug where numcpus (or could be maxload) is zero, crude fallback is to at least use 1
	 (loadjmp (- first next))
         (adjwait (min (+ 300 (random 10)) (abs (* (+ (random 10)(/ (- 1000 count) 10) waitdelay) (- first adjload) ))  )));; add some randomness to the time to break any alignment where netbatch dumps many jobs to machines simultaneously
    ;; let's let the user know once in a long while that load checking is happening but not constantly report it
    (if (> (random 100) 75) ;; about 25% of the time
	(debug:print-info 1 *default-log-port* "Checking cpuload on " (or remote-host "localhost") ", maxload: " maxload
			  ", load: " first ", adjload: " adjload ", loadjmp: " loadjmp))
    (cond
     ((and (> first adjload)
	   (> count 0))
      (debug:print-info 0 *default-log-port* "server start delayed " adjwait " seconds due to load " first " exceeding max of " adjload " on server " (or remote-host (get-host-name)) " (normalized load-limit: " maxload ") " (if msg msg ""))
      (thread-sleep! adjwait)
      (common:wait-for-cpuload maxload numcpus waitdelay count: (- count 1) msg: msg remote-host: remote-host))
     ((and (> loadjmp numcpus)

  -refdb2dat refdb        : convert refdb to sexp or to format specified by s-dumpmode
                            formats: perl, ruby, sqlite3, csv (for csv the -o param
                            will substitute %s for the sheet name in generating 
                            multiple sheets)
  -o                      : output file for refdb2dat (defaults to stdout)
  -archive cmd            : archive runs specified by selectors to one of disks specified
                            in the [archive-disks] section.
                            cmd: keep-html, restore, save, save-remove, get (use 
                            -dest to set destination), -include and -exclude to include or
                            exclude files)
  -generate-html          : create a simple html dashboard for browsing your runs
  -generate-html-structure  : create a top level html veiw to list targets/runs and a Run view within each run directory.  
  -list-run-time          : list time requered to complete runs. It supports following switches
                            -run-patt <patt> -target-patt <patt> -dumpmode <csv,json,plain-text>
  -list-test-time	  : list time requered to complete each test in a run. It following following arguments
                            -runname <patt> -target <patt> -dumpmode <csv,json,plain-text>
  -syscheck               : do some very basic checks; write access and space in tmp, home, runs, links and 

(define (runs:can-run-more-tests runsdat run-id jobgroup max-concurrent-jobs)

  ;; Take advantage of a good place to exit if running the one-pass methodology
  (if (and (> (runs:dat-can-run-more-tests-count runsdat) 20)
	   (args:get-arg "-one-pass"))
      (exit 0))

  (thread-sleep! (cond ;; BB: check with Matt.  Should this sleep move
		       ;; to cond clauses below where we determine we
		       ;; have too many jobs running rather than each
		       ;; time the and condition above is true (which
		       ;; seems like always)?
        	  ((> (runs:dat-can-run-more-tests-count runsdat) 20) ;; original intent was - save cycles, wait a long time
		   (if (runs:lownoise "waiting on tasks" 60)(debug:print-info 2 *default-log-port* "waiting for tasks to complete, sleeping briefly ..."))

		   10)  ;; obviously haven't had any work to do for a while
		  (else
		   ;; if have a number for inter-test-delay, use it, else don't delay much, maybe even zero?
		   (configf:lookup-number *configdat* "setup" "inter-test-delay" default: 0.01))))
  
  (let* ((num-running             (rmt:get-count-tests-running run-id))
	 (num-running-in-jobgroup (rmt:get-count-tests-running-in-jobgroup run-id jobgroup))
	 (job-group-limit         (let ((jobg-count (configf:lookup *configdat* "jobgroups" jobgroup)))
				    (if (string? jobg-count)
					(string->number jobg-count)
					jobg-count))))

      (items:get-items-from-config tconfig))
     (else #f))))                           ;; not iterated


;; returns waitons waitors tconfigdat
;;
(define (tests:get-waitons test-name all-tests-registry)
   (let* ((config  (tests:get-testconfig test-name #f all-tests-registry #t))) ;;'return-procs))) ;; assuming no problems with immediate evaluation, this could be simplified ('return-procs -> #t)
     (let ((instr (if config 
		      (configf:lookup config "requirements" "waiton")
		      (begin ;; No config means this is a non-existant test
			(debug:print-error 0 *default-log-port* "non-existent required test \"" test-name "\"")
			(exit 1))))
	   (instr2 (if config
		       (configf:lookup config "requirements" "waitor")

                                                                 (getenv "MT_TARGET") "/"
                                                                 (getenv "MT_RUNNAME") "/"
                                                                 test-name "/" item-path))
                                              (local-tcfg (conc local-tcdir "/testconfig")))
                                         (if (common:file-exists? local-tcfg)
                                             local-tcdir
                                             #f))
				       (begin
					 (debug:print-info 0 *default-log-port* "reading testconfig for "test-full-name" from tests/"test-name" directory.")
					 (conc *toppath* "/tests/" test-name)) ;; should this fallback exist?
				       ))
		     (test-configf (conc test-path "/testconfig"))
		     (testexists   (let loopa ((tries-left 30))
                                     (cond

                                      ((and (common:file-exists? test-configf)(file-read-access? test-configf))
                                       #t)

                                      ((common:file-exists? test-configf)
                                       (debug:print 0 *default-log-port* "WARNING: Cannot read testconfig file: "test-configf)
                                       #f)

                                      ((and wait-a-minute (> tries-left 0))
                                       (thread-sleep! 10)
                                       (debug:print 0 *default-log-port* "WARNING: testconfig file does not exist: "test-configf
						    " will retry in 10 seconds.  Tries left: "tries-left) ;; BB: this fires
                                       (loopa (sub1 tries-left)))
                                      (else
                                       (debug:print 0 *default-log-port* "WARNING: testconfig file does not exist: "test-configf) ;; BB: this fires
                                       #f))))
		     (tcfg         (if testexists
				       (configf:read-file test-configf #f system-allowed
						    environ-patt: (if system-allowed
								      "pre-launch-env-vars"
								      #f))
				       #f)))
		(if (and tcfg cache-file) (hash-table-set! tcfg "have fulldata" #t)) ;; mark this as fully read data
		(if tcfg (hash-table-set! *testconfigs* test-full-name tcfg))
		(if (and testexists