From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marius Bakke Subject: Re: Missing substitutes and TIMEOUT property (Racket, MAME) Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2020 17:52:34 +0100 Message-ID: <87mu8hlfvx.fsf@devup.no> References: <878sl0q6wk.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> <87blp1u2kf.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41008) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jDWVF-0008F5-GZ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Mar 2020 12:52:42 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jDWVE-00043k-Dj for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Mar 2020 12:52:41 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87blp1u2kf.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= , Pierre Neidhardt Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Ludovic Court=C3=A8s writes: > Hi! > > Pierre Neidhardt skribis: > >> Some packages are frequently without substitutes, like Racket and MAME. >> Link between the two? They both take a long time to build. So I wonder >> if this is not because the build somehow timeouts. >> >> I see that there is a `timeout' property on packages like chromium, >> qtwebkit, etc. > > Few people know that this property has absolutely no effect. :-) > > It used to be that Hydra would honor it. But Cuirass has never honored i= t. > > It=E2=80=99s not clear to me whether Cuirass should honor it, in fact. > > At the Guix level, timeouts are per session: you set them for all your > session with =E2=80=98set-build-options=E2=80=99. So if you want them pe= r-derivation, > you basically need to create one session per derivation build; that=E2=80= =99s > what Hydra did. > > But there=E2=80=99s a good reason for it to be per-session: the admin may= want > to be in control of those parameters. For example, on berlin, we=E2=80= =99d > rather make sure machines don=E2=80=99t stay idle for too long. Maybe we could create a separate jobset for the jobs that require a longer max-silent-time, IIUC? --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCgAdFiEEu7At3yzq9qgNHeZDoqBt8qM6VPoFAl5uXVIACgkQoqBt8qM6 VPpEFwgAlbLjdEJ9YWBs+bQzHFBGUtzGqCn9EvhT4jyE27zkdv+h+VS8qVa2f0/N h8oPf02iCxDnNI1fH2PBEmwSM9wcWbp0sfXRUArk0+DSwj5SVP8FMlyFpRzEFmcx o/3c9rxDQp4g3eY6LrU0YJXR2XFk1ZgzvzIHxYn2JPNUGBJ//9S7PXZRDpTsbJEi 1LWP2vO8SyagXkFbt54VlUCvPotVCc0hVYB00DtSRNJNS8jBwJlaSVHzYNlG8cUE eJkO44UKIeEWtc1KbyOMQ7fU5rhY2/ceYuCN/5tUXDigug3RCzVcOtLZxB4j3Qm7 spKzs6pYu6RRHsRUlTPhREo7H1OcYg== =4qXX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--