From 14821c59147228d45e3b6f828e7188a4075fa9cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tim Peters Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 16:45:41 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Doubled TimeoutTestCase.fuzz, to slash the frequency of bogus failures on the boxes I use. --- Lib/test/test_timeout.py | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Lib/test/test_timeout.py b/Lib/test/test_timeout.py index 6510ca9c9a..5949e51a1f 100644 --- a/Lib/test/test_timeout.py +++ b/Lib/test/test_timeout.py @@ -87,7 +87,13 @@ class CreationTestCase(unittest.TestCase): class TimeoutTestCase(unittest.TestCase): """Test case for socket.socket() timeout functions""" - fuzz = 1.0 + # There are a number of tests here trying to make sure that an operation + # doesn't take too much longer than expected. But competing machine + # activity makes it inevitable that such tests will fail at times. + # When fuzz was at 1.0, I (tim) routinely saw bogus failures on Win2K + # and Win98SE. Boosting it to 2.0 helped a lot, but isn't a real + # solution. + fuzz = 2.0 def setUp(self): self.sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) -- 2.40.0