[coreutils] Re: tests/backref-multibyte-slow timeout 5s is too short for my imac 400

2010-11-04 Thread Jim Meyering
Gilles Espinasse wrote: backref-multibyte-slow test fail on my imac 400 Fail with timeout 5s, pass when timeout is changed to 10s I have no faster machine to test on ppc. Thanks for the report. What is the ratio of the two times when running the latest with LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 / LC_ALL=C ? For

[coreutils] Re: tests/backref-multibyte-slow timeout 5s is too short for my imac 400

2010-11-04 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 04/11/10 09:40, Jim Meyering wrote: Gilles Espinasse wrote: backref-multibyte-slow test fail on my imac 400 Fail with timeout 5s, pass when timeout is changed to 10s I have no faster machine to test on ppc. Thanks for the report. What is the ratio of the two times when running the

[coreutils] Re: tests/backref-multibyte-slow timeout 5s is too short for my imac 400

2010-11-04 Thread Jim Meyering
Pádraig Brady wrote: On 04/11/10 09:40, Jim Meyering wrote: ... Using Perl would work... I've wanted this sort of ability for other tests (e.g., coreutils' tests/rm/ext3-perf), so maybe it's worth adding an option to GNU timeout: run a reference command, measuring how long it takes, S, and

[coreutils] Re: tests/backref-multibyte-slow timeout 5s is too short for my imac 400

2010-11-04 Thread Jim Meyering
Gilles Espinasse wrote: ... Patch work with the zerl/perl typo fixed PASS: backref-multibyte-slow Thanks. Oh, zerl was for testing, to make sure the case of missing perl was handled properly.