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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