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| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/test/test_timeout.py | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
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) |