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  r80240 | stefan.krah | 2010-04-20 10:13:03 +0200 (Tue, 20 Apr 2010) | 15 lines

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    r80238 | stefan.krah | 2010-04-20 09:59:10 +0200 (Tue, 20 Apr 2010) | 9 lines

    1) The timeout in the itimer tests was too low for slow or heavily
       loaded machines.

    2) Even with the increased timeout, the OS does not guarantee that
       a process will get a certain amount of virtual time in 60s, so
       the failure is changed to a diagnostic.
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