On May 21, 5:25pm, da...@l8s.co.uk (David Laight) wrote: -- Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/tests/syscall
| On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 05:14:07PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote: | > On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 03:34:22PM +0100, Julio Merino wrote: | > > Yes, the timeout thing is broken. It should really be a | > > specification of the test case size (e.g. 'small', 'large') and | > > allow the user to define his timeout preferences for every class, | > > because they will vary from machine to machine. | > | > Sure. I ran ATF on a machine with a 1Mhz CPU clock (this is a | > simulator, the real hardware is expected to run faster :). | > Lots of tests timed out just because on such hardware they can't | > complete in less than 5mn. | | Perhaps the timeout(s) should be settable units that default | to 1 second. | Them the timeouts can be scaled for very slow (or fast) systems. That should be easy to do since they are already strings. 1sec, 1msec, 1usec, 1nsec christos
