[PATCH] Increase timeout for tests and syntax-check

[Andrea Bolognani]

On Fri, 2021-01-29 at 12:48 +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 06:59:58PM +0100, Michal Privoznik wrote:
> > Since we've switched to meson our tests run with a timeout (meson
> > uses 30 seconds as the default). However, not every machine that
> > builds libvirt is fast enough to run every test under 30 seconds
> > (each test binary has its own timeout, but still). For instance
> > when building a package for distro on a farm that's under load.
> > Or on a generally slow ARM hardware. While each developer can
> > tune their command line for building by adding
> > --timeout-multiplier=10, this is hard to do for aforementioned
> > build farms.
> 
> I don't get why it is hard for build farms. Someone, somwhere
> is writing the script that invokes meson & ninja with some
> args. Why is it hard to add --timeout-multiplier=10 too ?
> 
> > It's time to admit that not everybody has the latest, top shelf
> > CPU and increase the timeout.
> 
> I'm not convinced we want to optimize for the slowest hardware
> we can find, especially when there's an easy option of setting
> --timeout-multiplier=10.

It's not complicated to add the option, but the fact that Debian,
SUSE and now Fedora all need to specify a timeout multiplier hints to
the fact that perhaps the default timeout is just too small.

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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization