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1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/test/option/debug-time.py b/test/option/debug-time.py
index bf18b97d..e8873cfb 100644
--- a/test/option/debug-time.py
+++ b/test/option/debug-time.py
@@ -117,6 +117,7 @@ scons_time = get_scons_time(stdout)
command_time = get_command_time(stdout)
failures = []
+warnings = []
if not within_tolerance(expected_command_time, command_time, 0.01):
failures.append("""\
@@ -134,15 +135,21 @@ outside of the 1%% tolerance.
""" % locals())
if not within_tolerance(total_time, expected_total_time, 0.15):
- failures.append("""\
-SCons -j1 reported total build time of %(total_time)s,
+ # This tolerance check seems empirically to work fine if there's
+ # a light load on the system, but on a heavily loaded system the
+ # timings get screwy and it can fail frequently. Some obvious
+ # attempts to work around the problem didn't, so just treat it as
+ # a warning for now.
+ warnings.append("""\
+Warning: SCons -j1 reported total build time of %(total_time)s,
but the actual measured build time was %(expected_total_time)s
(end-to-end time of %(complete_time)s less Python overhead of %(overhead)s),
outside of the 15%% tolerance.
""" % locals())
+if failures or warnings:
+ print string.join([test.stdout()] + failures + warnings, '\n')
if failures:
- print string.join([test.stdout()] + failures, '\n')
test.fail_test(1)
test.run(arguments = "--debug=time . SLEEP=0")