On Mon 03 Sep 2001 12:20, Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 11:31:35AM +0200, H. Merijn Brand wrote:
> > On Mon 03 Sep 2001 10:42, Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > What do we do about t/op/rand.t?
> > > It's expected to fail .1% of the time. We're running enough tests that this
> > > should show up regularly.
> 
> Why not just increase the # of reps by a factor of ten?  That should
> lover the chanced of the test failing.  It increases the time of the
> test by less than a half second here (PowerPC G3/266).

Acceptable

> I'll do that.  And strip that useless srand.

Will that gain back that 1/2 a sec ?-)

> > And the same for time.t, the test that sparsly fails in Simon's
> > reports, though I think someone is looking at loosening the
> > restraints for that test to pass as by Arthur's request.
> 
> I'm fixing up that test.  What bit tends to fail?

Don't know. Just saw his reports with an 'F' popping up somtimes for time.t
and thoight it not forward-worthy

Still digging and crawling through AIX 4.3 and HP-UX 10.20 mud ...

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