1) The timeout in the itimer tests was too low for slow or heavily

loaded machines.

2) Even with the increased timeout, the OS does not guarantee that
   a process will get a certain amount of virtual time in 60s, so
   the failure is changed to a diagnostic.
This commit is contained in:
Stefan Krah 2010-04-20 07:59:10 +00:00
parent 281b551a2e
commit 68b4e01c48

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@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ class InterProcessSignalTests(unittest.TestCase):
self.fail("pause returned of its own accord, and the signal"
" didn't arrive after another second.")
# Unknown if this affects earlier versions of freebsd also
# Issue 3864. Unknown if this affects earlier versions of freebsd also.
@unittest.skipIf(sys.platform=='freebsd6',
'inter process signals not reliable (do not mix well with threading) '
'on freebsd6')
@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ class ItimerTest(unittest.TestCase):
self.assertEqual(self.hndl_called, True)
# Unknown if this affects earlier versions of freebsd also
# Issue 3864. Unknown if this affects earlier versions of freebsd also.
@unittest.skipIf(sys.platform=='freebsd6',
'itimer not reliable (does not mix well with threading) on freebsd6')
def test_itimer_virtual(self):
@ -368,22 +368,22 @@ class ItimerTest(unittest.TestCase):
signal.setitimer(self.itimer, 0.3, 0.2)
start_time = time.time()
while time.time() - start_time < 5.0:
while time.time() - start_time < 60.0:
# use up some virtual time by doing real work
_ = pow(12345, 67890, 10000019)
if signal.getitimer(self.itimer) == (0.0, 0.0):
break # sig_vtalrm handler stopped this itimer
else:
self.fail('timeout waiting for sig_vtalrm signal; '
'signal.getitimer(self.itimer) gives: %s' %
(signal.getitimer(self.itimer),))
else: # Issue 8424
sys.stdout.write("test_itimer_virtual: timeout: likely cause: "
"machine too slow or load too high.\n")
return
# virtual itimer should be (0.0, 0.0) now
self.assertEquals(signal.getitimer(self.itimer), (0.0, 0.0))
# and the handler should have been called
self.assertEquals(self.hndl_called, True)
# Unknown if this affects earlier versions of freebsd also
# Issue 3864. Unknown if this affects earlier versions of freebsd also.
@unittest.skipIf(sys.platform=='freebsd6',
'itimer not reliable (does not mix well with threading) on freebsd6')
def test_itimer_prof(self):
@ -392,13 +392,15 @@ class ItimerTest(unittest.TestCase):
signal.setitimer(self.itimer, 0.2, 0.2)
start_time = time.time()
while time.time() - start_time < 5.0:
while time.time() - start_time < 60.0:
# do some work
_ = pow(12345, 67890, 10000019)
if signal.getitimer(self.itimer) == (0.0, 0.0):
break # sig_prof handler stopped this itimer
else:
self.fail('timeout waiting for sig_prof signal')
else: # Issue 8424
sys.stdout.write("test_itimer_prof: timeout: likely cause: "
"machine too slow or load too high.\n")
return
# profiling itimer should be (0.0, 0.0) now
self.assertEquals(signal.getitimer(self.itimer), (0.0, 0.0))