bug#21826: long-pattern-perf test failing on distribution buildsystem

[Jim Meyering]

On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 8:23 AM, Jaroslav Skarvada <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am observing build failures in Fedora build system (Koji) due to
> failing test 'long-pattern-perf' test. I think it's due to variable
> load on the builders, thus the time measurement of the run is not
> reliable. From one run I got:
>
> $base_ms = 20
> $b10x_ms = 550 / 20 = 27
>
> which triggers the failure. For now I disabled the test downstream
> and so far I haven't discovered any other problem

Thanks to you and Andreas for the reports.
I have pushed the attached to make these rare failures less
likely to cause trouble:

0001-tests-mark-performance-related-tests-as-expensive.patch
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