Mark H Weaver writes: > Hi Marius, > > Marius Bakke writes: >> Mark H Weaver writes: >> >>> Unfortunately, even with "nss-increase-test-timeout.patch" and >>> "nss-disable-long-b64-tests.patch", the build still failed on armhf: >>> >>> https://hydra.gnu.org/build/2010324 >> >> This looks very similar to the random connect timeouts that prompted the >> "increase-test-timeouts" patch, except this time it took 50s instead of >> ~20s: > > Thanks very much for looking into it. > > 50 seconds to make a local connection? Bah, that's ridiculous! I'm > beginning to wonder if the kernels running on these build slaves have > buggy schedulers resulting in starvation, or perhaps we're overloading > them too much. I've wondered about this too. Even x86_64 exceeded the default 5s timeout once. Maybe they are swapping to a busy I/O device? >> I am 99% sure the attached patch will do the job. What do you think? > > If it sometimes takes 50 seconds to make a local connection, then I > suspect it could occasionally take much longer than a minute. > > For now, I've asked Hydra to try building it again, as is. > > Maybe in 'core-updates' we should consider increasing the timeout to > something on the order of 5 or 10 minutes. This time a different test timed out at 34s. For now, I pushed the change for armhf only with timeout set to 5 minutes. Let's see how that goes.