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Date:      Sun, 18 Jan 2009 13:52:25 +0000
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
To:        =?UTF-8?B?RGFnLUVybGluZyBTbcO4cmdyYXY=?= <des@des.no>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: stress2 is now in projects
Message-ID:  <49733419.5000407@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <86iqocstjm.fsf@ds4.des.no>
References:  <20090118082145.GA18067@x2.osted.lan> <86iqocstjm.fsf@ds4.des.no>
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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
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