ITS#8752 - Add echo statements about the purpose of the test and a

warning that it may take manual intervention to exit if a deadlock
occurs

diff --git a/tests/data/regressions/its8752/its8752 b/tests/data/regressions/its8752/its8752
index 619e530a9fc1175fe5ea959c9617dc918a17ca60..c851f561c1e642724ceb359a99f22390cd91b5f5 100755 (executable)
--- a/tests/data/regressions/its8752/its8752
+++ b/tests/data/regressions/its8752/its8752
@@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ if test $dtest = N; then
        exit 0
 fi
 
+echo "This test tracks a case where slapd deadlocks during a significant write load"
+echo "See http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi/?findid=8752 for more information."
+
 MMR=4
 XDIR=$TESTDIR/srv
 
@@ -214,6 +217,8 @@ EOMODS
 done
 
 echo "Sleeping 30 seconds to ensure replication is reconciled between all nodes"
+echo "The next step of the test will perform 20000 random write operations and may take some time."
+echo "As this test is for a deadlock, it will take manual intervention to exit the test if one occurs."
 sleep 30
 
 echo "Starting random master/entry modifications..."