Build failed in Jenkins: cyrus-imapd-master #756

[Bron Gondwana]

On Tue, Aug 7, 2012, at 11:56 AM, Greg Banks wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, Aug 7, 2012, at 07:12 PM, Jenkins wrote:
> > See <http://ci.cyrusimap.org/job/cyrus-imapd-master/756/changes>
> > 
> > Changes:
> > 
> > [gnb] Bug #3726 Add a portability stub for posix_fadvise
> > 
> > [gnb] Update K&R code in portability stubs.
> > 
> > [gnb] Bug #3726 Add a portability stub for strsep
> > 
> > [gnb] Bug #3726 Add a portability stub for memmem
> > 
> > [...]
> > Cassandane::Test::Metronome.basic
> >     http://ci.cyrusimap.org/job/cyrus-imapd-master/756//testReport/%28root%29/Cassandane__Test__Metronome/test_basic/
> 
> Cassandane::Test::Metronome.test_basic (from
> Cassandane__Test__Metronome)
> Failing for the past 1 build (Since Failed#756 )
> Took 1 sec.
> Error Message
> 
> Standard deviation 1.43380587135031 is too high
> 
> Hmm, this failure had nothing to do with the recent commits - that test
> is not even running C code.  The test is just time sensitive.  This is
> the second time it's happened recently; perhaps the physical hardware is
> more heavily loaded these days. If it happens again I'll bump up the
> threshold in the test.

For sure.  Why are we caring about relative speed of the virtual machine
across time?  Spurious test failures just lead to being ignored :(

Bron.
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