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Re: [committed buildbot patch] Replace the aarch64 build slave
Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> writes:
> On Tue, 9 Oct 2018, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
>
>> the first build is red, there are two failures, both are timeouts:
>>
>> libio/tst-readline takes more than 80s
>> nss/tst-nss-files-hosts-multi takes about 30s
>>
>> i assume it's ok to set TIMEOUTFACTOR=5 in the bot environment
>> or should we raise the TIMEOUT of these particular tests?
>
> If only a few tests are timing out, and there are good reasons for them to
> time out on slow systems (amount of processing or I/O involved), then I
> think raising those tests' TIMEOUT is appropriate.
I agree with Joseph.
But answering your initial question: we can indeed change TIMEOUTFACTOR in the
bot.
We can tune it for each slave, if necessary.
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Tulio Magno