Re: [Boost-testing] Testing timeout on Win64 results?

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-10-15 12:55:54

Sean Huang wrote:
>> FWIW, I'm running the Linux smoke tests on a 2.66 mhz Intel Core 2
>> duo, with timeout at 120 seconds, and don't seem to be timing out on
>> any of those math tests.
>
> I just tried a few cases. They take from 90 to 150 seconds. Intel
> Compiler runs MUCH faster on Core 2 processors with big cache (for
> example 4MB). We have observed 10 to 20 times performance increase on
> these processors compared to the old xeon processors.
>
> I have changed the timeout to 5mins just to be safe.

Many thanks Sean: anything that's still running after 5min deserves to get 
killed :-)

John.