Ulrich Windl wrote: >>>> "A. Schulze" <[email protected]> schrieb am 17.12.2018 um 22:19 in > Nachricht <[email protected]>: > >> >> Am 16.12.18 um 23:32 schrieb Howard Chu: >>>>>>>>> ./data/regressions/its8752/its8752 failed (exit 1) >>> >>> I believe this is simply due to too short a sleep between steps. It happens >> quite >>> often on slower machines. >> >> are there plans to to relax the timings or should I simple ignore that fail? >> "it may happen that 'make its' pass on other computers" don't really satisfy >> me :-) > > When waiting for an event (other than passing of time) sleep is always the > wrong solution
False. > (iven if seemingly industry-standard work-around for all kinds of bugs): > It's either too long, wasting time, or too short, failing to fulfill ist > purpose. sleep is used because it is a low cost operation on the computer. Anything more active than that will use more system resources, which are obviously already scarce on a slower system. i.e., active polling on a slow machine will only make things slower. -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/
