Guidance for Test Labs

This page covers guidance for test labs that isn't relevant for election workers.

Power Cycling

While test labs are free to run machines for long periods of time and naturally need to for tests like the 104-hour continuous operations test, we generally recommend powering down machines every couple of days. Rebooting a machine triggers necessary log file compression and rotation to save disk space. While some log files are compressed and rotated automatically on a daily basis, others are not in order to maintain the highest possible fidelity and are only compressed and rotated on reboot.