test 2 uses far more sys than user time, so it's possible to burn
20 secs of wall time without an apparent increase in user time
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@29712
ok($now > $beg && $now - $beg < 10, 'very basic time test');
for ($i = 0; $i < 1_000_000; $i++) {
+ for my $j (1..100) {}; # burn some user cycles
($nowuser, $nowsys) = times;
$i = 2_000_000 if $nowuser > $beguser && ( $nowsys >= $begsys ||
(!$nowsys && !$begsys));