Re: ATF tests still failing to complete within 2 hours on amd64

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>]

On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 01:20:02PM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote:
> On Fri, 02 Dec 2011, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> >>Well, if it's broken we should certainly try to fix it. That
> >>said, even if it's not broken, I think three failures in 10,000
> >>is too high for production use... at least if the failure causes
> >>a panic at boot time. Particularly a panic at boot time when new
> >>users are trying to boot the installer for the first time.
> >
> >I can't see why.  One in 3,333 times, the test falses positive,
> >the machine reboots, and comes back up running normally.
> 
> There's a big difference between "panic" and "reboots and comes back
> up running normally".  Which is it?

There is?  Why?

Thor