On 05 Mar 2014, at 09:32, Rutledge Shawn <shawn.rutle...@digia.com> wrote:
> Sometimes though, we try to fix the autotests that fail the most frequently. > If you can't reproduce the failure on your own machine, with the same OS, > often the cause seems to be heavy multi-tasking on the CI machines, which > will slow down timing-sensitive tests to the point of failure. But even that > is hard to prove, since CI is a black box to most of us; and even if you get > access to a CI machine to run tests on, they won't fail because it's not > multi-tasking so heavily at that time. A virtual machine with very limited resources can often reproduce such test failures. At least VBox lets you change CPU execution cap while the virtual machine is running. -- J-P Nurmi _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
