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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"test failures on smartos while running in parallel","articleBody":"We consistently get [failed tests](https://jenkins-iojs.nodesource.com/job/node-test-commit-other/nodes=smartos14-64/245/tapTestReport/) while running the test suite in parallel on smartos which confuses me, this `spawnSync` test for instance now takes 8 seconds to exit `sleep 1`:\n\n```\nnot ok 49 - test-child-process-spawnsync.js\n# \n# assert.js:89\n# throw new assert.AssertionError({\n# ^\n# AssertionError: timer should take as long as sleep\n# at null._onTimeout (/home/iojs/build/workspace/node-test-commit-other/nodes/smartos14-64/test/parallel/test-child-process-spawnsync.js:15:10)\n# at Timer.listOnTimeout (timers.js:89:15)\n# sleep started\n# sleep exited [ 1, 848820350 ]\n```\n\nThe above test run generated 12 issues where I can consistently reproduce 8. All of them seem timing related.\n\n@misterdjules got any idea?\n/CC @nodejs/platform-solaris \n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/jbergstroem","@type":"Person","name":"jbergstroem"},"datePublished":"2015-08-26T23:36:53.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":13},"url":"https://github.com/2567/node/issues/2567"}