Regression testing

[Chris Adams]

Once upon a time, Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs at math.uh.edu> said:
> >>>>> "MAH" == Mike A Harris <mharris at www.linux.org.uk> 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?

I would say something was broken.  I have run the OpenSSH tests on a
single 620MHz Alpha (that was otherwise idle) in about 5 minutes.  The
only way I can see an 8 CPU system taking 16 hours would be if it was 8
8088s.

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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
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