diff --git a/chapter08/glibc.xml b/chapter08/glibc.xml
index e8432fe19..10fccb3a9 100644
--- a/chapter08/glibc.xml
+++ b/chapter08/glibc.xml
@@ -163,34 +163,34 @@ esac
is known to fail in the LFS chroot environment.
-
- Three nptl/tst-thread-affinity*
- tests are known to fail.
-
-
-
-
-
-
- The stdlib/tst-arc4random-thread
- test is known to fail if the host kernel is relatively old.
-
-
Some tests, for example
- nss/tst-nss-files-hosts-multi,
- are known to fail on relatively slow systems due to an internal
- timeout.
+ nss/tst-nss-files-hosts-multi and
+ nptl/tst-thread-affinity*
+ are known to fail due to a timeout (especially when the system is
+ relatively slow and/or running the test suite with multiple
+ parallel make jobs). These tests can be identified with:
+
+
+ grep "Timed out" -l $(find -name \*.out)
+
+ It's possible to re-run a single test with enlarged timeout
+ with
+ TIMEOUTFACTOR=<factor>
+ make test t=<test name>.
+ For example, TIMEOUTFACTOR=10 make test
+ t=nss/tst-nss-files-hosts-multi will re-run
+ nss/tst-nss-files-hosts-multi with ten times
+ the original timeout.
Additionally, some tests may fail with a relatively old CPU
- model or host kernel version.
+ model (for example
+ elf/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo) or host kernel
+ version (for example
+ stdlib/tst-arc4random-thread).