[PATCH] gdb.base/siginfo-thread.exp: Increase timeout for 'gcore' command

[Wei-min Pan]

Yao Qi wrote:
> Weimin Pan <weimin.pan@oracle.com> writes:
>
>   
>> The following failed lines from running test case siginfo-thread:
>>
>> FAIL: gdb.base/siginfo-thread.exp: save a core file (timeout)
>> FAIL: gdb.base/siginfo-thread.exp: extract si_addr
>> FAIL: gdb.base/siginfo-thread.exp: p ssi_addr
>>
>> indicate the testsuite timed out when gdb was instructed to write the
>> core file. The patch below fixes the problem by simply increasing the
>> timeout by a factor of 2 to give gdb more time to generate core files.
>>
>> Tested in sparc64-linux-gnu. No regressions.
>>     
>
> Did you see timeout fails in all gcore related tests?  gdb_gcore_cmd is
> used in many places in gdb testsuite.  Did you investigate why it is so
> slow to generate coredump in gdb?
>
>   
No, only this test failed with timeout and did so consistently. The 
generated core file was fine.
We suspect the slow disk performance was the culprit.

Thanks.