On 03/26/2013 10:18 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> writes: >> There is some timeout code already in the buildfarm client. It was >> originally put there to help us when we got CVS hangs, a not infrequent >> occurrence in the early days, so it's currently only used if configured >> for the checkout phase, but it could easily be used to create a build >> timeout which would kill the whole process group if the timeout expired. >> It wouldn't work on Windows, and of course it won't solve whatever >> problem caused the hang in the first place, but it still might be worth >> doing. > > +1 --- at least then we'd get reports of failures, rather than the > current behavior where the animal just stops reporting.
yeah I have had multiple buildfarm members running into similiar issues (like the still-unexplained issues on spoonbill from a year back: http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/4fe4b674.3020...@kaltenbrunner.cc) so I would really like to see an option for a global timeout. Stefan -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
