Re: [RFC PATCH] .cirrus.yml: bump timeout period for MacOS builds

From: "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>
To: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Cc: "Ed Maste" <emaste@freebsd.org>,
	"Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <f4bug@amsat.org>,
	"qemu-devel@nongnu.org Developers" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	luoyonggang@gmail.com, "Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	"Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>,
	"Li-Wen Hsu" <lwhsu@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] .cirrus.yml: bump timeout period for MacOS builds
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2020 09:56:27 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201215095627.GD121272@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <caaa48db-95b4-0765-2b96-e7f7298457fb@redhat.com>

On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 10:33:09AM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 14/12/2020 10.24, Alex Bennée wrote:
> > 
> > 罗勇刚(Yonggang Luo) <luoyonggang@gmail.com> writes:
> > 
> >> On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 2:36 AM Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 4:11 PM Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
> >>>> On 18/11/2020 15.07, Alex Bennée wrote:
> >>>>> These seem to trigger timeouts with some regularity.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
> >>>>> ---
> >>>>>  .cirrus.yml | 2 ++
> >>>>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> diff --git a/.cirrus.yml b/.cirrus.yml
> >>>>> index f0209b7a3e..08db7c419f 100644
> >>>>> --- a/.cirrus.yml
> >>>>> +++ b/.cirrus.yml
> >>>>> @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ freebsd_12_task:
> >>>>>      - gmake -j$(sysctl -n hw.ncpu) check V=1
> >>>>>
> >>>>>  macos_task:
> >>>>> +  timeout_in: 90m
> >>>>>    osx_instance:
> >>>>>      image: catalina-base
> >>>>>    install_script:
> >>>>> @@ -32,6 +33,7 @@ macos_task:
> >>>>>      - gmake check V=1
> >>>>>
> >>>>>  macos_xcode_task:
> >>>>> +  timeout_in: 90m
> >>>>>    osx_instance:
> >>>>>      # this is an alias for the latest Xcode
> >>>>>      image: catalina-xcode
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
> >>>>
> >>>> ... we could maybe also split the --target-list between the two jobs if
> >> they
> >>>> take too long...
> >>>
> >>> Maybe it's time, 90min reached:
> >>> https://cirrus-ci.com/task/5774549872541696
> >>>
> >> Even two hour doesn't working, don't know why
> > 
> > It seems to have jumped up quite considerably over a short period which
> > makes me think the underlying cause is something is getting stuck on
> > MacOS. Unfortunately it's hard to debug with just the logs because
> > whatever is taking the time might not be the last thing in the logs.
> > 
> > Having a time-per-test metric would be useful here.
> 
> Didn't Daniel post such a patch some weeks ago?

I posted a nasty hack for it, but Paolo has integrated nice support for
it into Meson git master

Regards,
Daniel
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