Pádraig Brady wrote: ... >> I repeated the test with < 0.2 load 100 times: >> the run #5, #18, #28, #53, #58 and #71 resulted in FAIL as above, >> and the run #24 and #25 PASSed but took 20 seconds, >> all other PASSed within <=0.3s. > > I reproduced this weirdness in OpenSuse 10.3 in a VM. > Much less frequently though. > Delays in 10 out of 2750 > Signal handler call failure in 1 out of 2750
Wow. Congratulations on managing to reproduce those. > The delays might be due to bash, but I updated > to 4.2 and the issue still persists. > I suspect kernel issues too. > > Anyway I've attached 2 patches to replace the previous one. > The first hopefully addresses any races in the test. > I don't think you hit any of these TBH. > > The second should detect the signal issues and skip the test. Those look good to me. Thanks.
