On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 09:44 -0600, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > >>>>> "MAH" == Mike A Harris <mharris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > MAH> The openssh tests also consume 99.9% of all CPUs even in 8way > MAH> boxes, and do this for like 16 hours straight. > > Are they broken or just very thorough? Is there a reasonable subset > that could be run in a reasonable amount of time that would still make > sure that, say, the compiler didn't miscompile some bit of code? > > Having a test suite that takes two weeks to run on a box that a mere > mortal might own seems counterproductive, if the goal is to have mere > mortals running it. Well, part of this particular case is a scheduling problem -- openssh's test suite doesn't use SMP, IIRC, but we don't schedule something else to build when the box isn't fully utilized. -- Peter