Unhappy about test/ProblemList.txt

[Kelly O'Hair]

On Mar 29, 2010, at 7:04 PM, Martin Buchholz wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 17:14, Kelly O'Hair <kelly.ohair at sun.com>  
> wrote:
>>
>> Jonathan is working on some changes to jtreg that may allow many of  
>> the
>> tests on the ProblemList to be removed, I am hopeful anyway.
>> Once we have that new jtreg available, trimming this list down is  
>> next.
>>
>> I admit to being a little quick to add some tests to the list, it  
>> was a
>> somewhat
>> frustrating experience to isolate these things when looking at all 12
>> platforms/vms.
>>
>> I think in this case it was timing out on Solaris sparc and  
>> appeared to be a
>> stress test.
>> This test is already marked othervm, so I can only assume that it  
>> is very
>> close
>> to the default timeout,
>
> If increasing the timeout will make failures go away, then that is
> perfectly fine.
> You can reasonably increase the timeout up to 1 hour.

I'm not sure having this one test take an hour is fair to the other  
1,000's of tests.
It it can't run in under 5min, I'd question the test, maybe it's  
sleeping or blocking
too much if that is the case.
Part of the goal in all this was to provide wide solid test coverage  
in a reasonable amount
of time, but if we allow many tests to run for an hour, that's a bit  
of a problem.

Regardless, I don't think this test takes an hour, I'll put a 10min  
timeout on it
and see how that goes. But I suspect it will run in well under 5min.

-kto

>
> Martin