Antw: Re: RE24 testing call (2.4.47) LMDB RE0.9 testing call (0.9.23)

["Ulrich Windl" <Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de>]

>>> "A. Schulze" <sca@andreasschulze.de> schrieb am 17.12.2018 um 22:19 in
Nachricht <77e04ce8-0362-c873-c751-98bc9ea58c73@andreasschulze.de>:

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> Am 16.12.18 um 23:32 schrieb Howard Chu:
>>>>>>>> ./data/regressions/its8752/its8752 failed (exit 1)
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>> I believe this is simply due to too short a sleep between steps. It happens 
> quite
>> often on slower machines.
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> are there plans to to relax the timings or should I simple ignore that fail?
> "it may happen that 'make its' pass on other computers" don't really satisfy 
> me :-)

When waiting for an event (other than passing of time) sleep is always the wrong solution (iven if seemingly industry-standard work-around for all kinds of bugs): It's either too long, wasting time, or too short, failing to fulfill ist purpose.

Regards,
Ulrich

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> Andreas
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