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

[Alex Bennée]

Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> writes:

> 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

OK I have queued to this patch to testing/next while the discussion is
had. I'll update the commit message.

-- 
Alex Bennée