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Subject: Re: stress2 is now in projects
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Peter Holm <pho@freebsd.org> writes:
>> The key functionality of this test suite is that it runs a random
>> number of test programs for a random period, in random incarnations
>> and in random sequence.
> 
> In other words, it's non-deterministic and non-reproducable.
> 
> You should at the very least allow the user to specify the random seed.
> 
> DES

I doubt this will help at all since the test suite is (by design) 
massively parallel, so you're at the mercy of small timing changes.

Kris