How to add timeout to Ada tests on Linux/ia64?

[Laurent GUERBY]

On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 12:31, Arnaud Charlet wrote:
> > I did about 100 runs on an unloaded P3 1GHz before setting One_Second
> > to this value.
> 
> I guess you should also have made a few runs with a *loaded* machine.

You misunderstood the process, you need reference conditions to measure
something, I just set it to 1GHz P3. With a load of 2 without
swapping, that reference just would have been a 500MHz P3, but
that's still an arbirary choice :). When swapping or heavy I/O all bets
are off anyway (with 2.4 kernels at least).

Laurent