I am not 100% percent sure what is happening but it seems that
newMessageFilter is async operation, result of this operation is assumed
to be used in callbacks. All other tests are doing at least 1 io operation
in between creating a filter and posting a message, and it must be enough
for newMessageFilter to complete.
Setting higher GOMAXPROCS allows Otto vm to execute received io requests
immediatly. While lower number of processes may result in events re-ordering.
https://github.com/ethereum/web3.js/blob/develop/lib/web3/methods/shh.js#L39-L41
I tested this change with GOMAXPROCS=1 and it passes consistently.
* Update project to use Whisper v6. Part of #638
* Revert "Add patch to downgrade usage of Whisper v6 to v5 in some geth 1.8.1 vendor files. Part of #665" - this reverts commit 6aefb4c8fd02dbcfffac6b69e8bb22b13ef86b6b.
* Enable light mode on Whisper v6 for non-mail servers. Part of #638
* Fix race condition in whisperv6/peer.go. Part of #665 (PR already accepted upstream for 1.8.2)
* Update bootnode addresses in staticnodes.json. Part of #638
* Add `shh.lightclient` flag and tests for bloom filter setting logic. Part of #638
* Move MakeTestNodeConfig to utils. Part of #638
* Reduce PoW in `whisper_jail_test.go` to fix flaky test. Part of #638
Dmitry Shulyak
Pedro Pombeiro
Alex Kohler
Adam Babik
Sebastian Klier