Hi Julien, On Wed, 2025-01-22 at 13:09 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 10:34:25 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > Hello Julien, > > > > On Wed, 2025-01-22 at 10:15 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > > > Hmm, so I don't think I want to do that: > > > - the default timeout is 360, so 1800 is already way above that, an hour > > > per test is unreasonable > > > - I don't want to be running the even slower tests on those already too > > > slow archs, which --allow-slow-tests would do > > > > I understand your concern. But the problem with SPARC is that the > > single-core > > performance is rather low and the architectures have a lot of cores to > > compensate > > for that. Thus, if a test requires higher single-core performance, it will > > fail > > here. > > What --allow-slow-tests does is make some tests run that would otherwise > be skipped, so if anything it's going to make things worse. > > And I'd rather skip some tests that are problematic than let them run > longer than the current timeout.
OK, then I misunderstood that option. I will retest with the option removed and the timeout reduced to 1800 on sparc64 and report back. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
