Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 2/2] gawk: reduce strictness of the time test

2021-10-19 Thread Ross Burton
On Tue, 19 Oct 2021 at 13:04, Jacob Kroon wrote: > I would have removed the test. These load-sensitive tests are gonna fail > occasionally, whatever limit you put there. I'm split on this. Removing the test obviously means that it can never fail, whereas a timeout will fail given potentially

Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 2/2] gawk: reduce strictness of the time test

2021-10-19 Thread Jacob Kroon
On 10/19/21 13:35, Ross Burton wrote: The time.awk test does a sleep() and verifies that the actual delay is close to the requested time. However on a loaded system the range of acceptable durations is quite tight and will occasionally fail. Solve this by increasing the range of acceptable

[OE-core] [PATCH 2/2] gawk: reduce strictness of the time test

2021-10-19 Thread Ross Burton
The time.awk test does a sleep() and verifies that the actual delay is close to the requested time. However on a loaded system the range of acceptable durations is quite tight and will occasionally fail. Solve this by increasing the range of acceptable delays slightly to between 50% and 200% of