Hi, Ken -
> >Several of the pending patches on pcpfans.git fche/pmfuntools (nee
> >fche/multithread) were written 5-7 weeks ago to improve this.
>
> Thanks for the pointer Frank. These commits have been merged now (based
> on a quick inspection of the commit history in the two trees) and on the
> one machine I've tried, qa/666 has passed 3/3 attempts ... so that's
> very encouraging.
Thanks!
> As one who spends more time debugging other people's qa tests than
> anyone else (which is not related to 666 but is a more general
> statement), it is however a bit perplexing that 666 runs for more
> than five minutes [...]
Yeah; it's more asynchronous and its child pm$client processes have
run times that are too variable to be able to do at least a few
iteration rounds within a much smaller fixed timeframe.
- FChE
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