Re: [PATCH] .gitlab-ci.d/buildtest.yml: Increase the check-gprof-gcov job timeout

[Thomas Huth]

On 18/08/2022 09.07, Alex Bennée wrote:
> Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Current project timeout is 1 hour, but the check-gprof-gcov job never
> > completes within 1 hour. Increase the job timeout to 90 minutes.
>
> I've tried to do some data mining on this test which seems to indicate
> that the average successful completion time for gprof-gcov is 27 mins.
> So it seems the sometimes *something* causes it to run a lot more
> slowly. I wonder if increasing the timeout just masks the problem?

I think it's very certainly the migration test that is causing the timeout 
now. In former times, the test was skipped, see e.g.:

 https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/jobs/2795092179#L48

Since commit 2649a72555e the tests are run and take ca. 2 * 20 minutes:

 https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/jobs/2798625330#L48

That's why I started a discussion here for how to reduce the amount of time 
of the migration tests in the CI:

 https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2022-08/msg01219.html

 Thomas