[squeak-dev] Re: [Vm-dev] I would be extremely grateful for a reproducible case for the following Socket issue

Stephan Eggermont stephan at stack.nl
Thu Mar 24 08:44:33 UTC 2016


On 23-03-16 19:45, Eliot Miranda wrote:
> I'll take every few hours, but I'd prefer "in under 30 minutes". 
> Getting warm and fuzzy feelings when trying to prove a negative with 
> something that takes hours to run is very difficult. Let's say you 
> have a case which reproduces in 8 hours 50% of the time. To reach 99% 
> confidence level in a fix I'd have to run it for 8 * (50 log: 2) hours 
> without seeing it reproduce, right? That's nearly 2 days; it could 
> take weeks to fix :-( Levente

Is this something where throwing a lot of hardware at it would speed up 
things?
Run for a few minutes on hundreds of vms?

Stephan




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