[Box Backup] boxbackup 0.11rc1 - Apple PPC G4 450 Mhz - Debian Etch (stable)

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Tobias,

On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Tobias Balle-Petersen wrote:

> Chris Wilson wrote:
> > > I think this is due to the machine being slow (test takes more than 40
> > > seconds). Is it reasonable for the test to fail on a slow machine?
> > 
> > Yes, very reasonable, and that's not a fast machine.
> 
> What I mean is: Maybe slower machines should pass the test? That is, the 
> criteria for passing the test should be, say, 30 seconds. What do you 
> think?

The current criteria is 20 seconds and your machine took 58. 30 seconds 
would not have been enough for the test to pass for you, and I don't know 
how long it took before the bug was fixed that caused this test to be 
created in the first place. I do know that it takes more than 20 and 
less than 40 seconds in a VMware vm on my laptop. 

Anyone else have suggestions for a sane time threshold for this test 
(diffing 200MB of zeroes), taking into account that any choice will be a 
tradeoff between old hardware and detecting inefficient code, the original 
purpose of the test?

Maybe we could run a quick timer loop and base the threshold on that?

Cheers, Chris.
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