too many tests fail with TimedOutException

[Rebecca W. Perry]

When I run the test sweet, I get up to 10 errors that are just due to timing out.

python run_nose.py

nosetests -a !slow --processes=2
Ran 104 tests in 45.151s
FAILED (SKIP=1, errors=10)

instead, if I just run nosetests, I get many fewer errors. And, the error is from a dda 2_cpu test that is an expected failure on my machine.

nosetests
FAILED (SKIP=2, errors=1)

I would like to see all the tests intelligently skipped or passing. I'm not sure where to fix the code to about all the TimedOutException's.