Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642985 Michal Fojtik <mfojtik@xxxxxxxxxx> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Flag|needinfo?(mfojtik@xxxxxxxxx | |m) | --- Comment #6 from Michal Fojtik <mfojtik@xxxxxxxxxx> 2010-11-09 07:13:12 EST --- (In reply to comment #3) > By the way for bug 640608: > > It seems that > $ ruby -e 'otime = Time.now ; sleep(1) ; ctime=Time.now ; puts ctime - otime' > will call system calls: gettimeofday -> select -> gettimeofday. > > However it seems that select() sometimes sleeps less time than > requested: > http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/8/29/232 > ... which seems fixed in kernel 2.6.28. So RHEL5 host may suffer from > this issue? (and perl seems to be using nanosleep instead of select) Well, I AFAIK this bug is related just for Xen guests. Bare metal installations of RHEL5 is not suffering with this. And it's issue in kernel as far as I discussed with some kernel engineers. (In reply to comment #4) > Created attachment 454912 [details] > Use nanosleep() instead of select() for ruby sleep() > > If bug 640608 is related to select(), the attached patch may > worth trying. Yes definitely, this patch looks OK for solving this issue. I'll give it a try today and send you the results. + Agree on disabling those tests (for now). All tests are now passed in Koji. ========================= -2 =================== * Thu Nov 09 2010 Michal Fojtik <mfojtik@xxxxxxxxxx> - 0.3.5-2 - Disabled test_time_stack_item test Spec URL: http://mifo.sk/RPMS/rubygem-timecop.spec SRPM URL: http://mifo.sk/RPMS/rubygem-timecop-0.3.5-2.fc14.src.rpm -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ package-review mailing list package-review@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-review