From 9859f5ad129b226ff8782bbb37d9cf97ac66942a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chad Whitacre <chad@zetaweb.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2018 16:47:14 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Provide hint about test over-parallelization

---
 README.md | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 6a21df7ef6..078dc4b40d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -59,7 +59,9 @@ $ bin/consul
 
 *Note: `make` will also place a copy of the binary in the first part of your `$GOPATH`.*
 
-You can run tests by typing `make test`.
+You can run tests by typing `make test`. The test suite may fail if
+over-parallelized, so if you are seeing stochastic failures try
+`GOTEST_FLAGS="-p 2 -parallel 2" make test`.
 
 If you make any changes to the code, run `make format` in order to automatically
 format the code according to Go standards.