selftest results for PPA 1.15-1 on x86_64

[John Szakmeister]

On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 6:19 AM, Vincent Ladeuil <v.ladeuil+lp at free.fr> wrote:
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> >>>>> "John" == John Szakmeister <john at szakmeister.net> writes:
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>    John> No, it runs single threaded by default.  But I found on my Mac, the
>    John> all complete when I run them in parallel.
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> And hangs if run single threaded ?

Yep.

>    John> Maybe it's an entropy issue?
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> By default, the test suite is intended to run under the same
> conditions (there are some exceptions, but they are supposed to
> be isolated).

It's not entirely the same environment.  The extra i/o of test suites
running in parallel can add extra entropy to the entropy pool.  This
wouldn't be the first time I've seen an issue like this.  Although, I
must say that a number of systems have the Intel Firmware Hub chip
that's equipped with a thermal noise random number generator... I
don't know why more OSes don't make use of it. *shrug*

It's just a thought, since this appears to be hanging on ssl related
stuff which pulls from the entropy pool.

-John