Re: [Boost-testing] Timeout on Martin Wille x86-64 machine?

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-11-23 14:27:35

Martin Wille wrote:
> John Maddock wrote:
>> Martin,
>>
>> What's the timeout on the x86-64 Linux machine: the three remaining
>> Math lib failures
>> (http://beta.boost.org/development/tests/trunk/developer/issues_release_.html#math)
>> are all the longest-running of the Math lib tests, so I suspect a
>> timeout being triggered, but can't be sure from the results.  BTW,
>> these all pass on the HP-Testdrive 64-bit Linux machine I tried, and
>> take about 30s to complete there.
>
> Yup, exit code 152 indicates a SIGXCPU. Tests are limited to 20 CPU
> seconds here.

Any chance of upping the limit slightly?

The only alternative I can see is to mark them up as expected failures: 
these tests have already been split into 4 to reduce build/execute times, 
but it's hard to see how to split them any further :-(

Many thanks, John.