On Tue, 16 Jul 2024 at 14:07, Michael S. Tsirkin <m...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 16, 2024 at 02:59:30PM +0200, Igor Mammedov wrote: > > CI often fails 'cross-i686-tci' job due to runner slowness > > Log shows that test almost complete, with a few remaining > > when bios-tables-test timeout hits: > > > > 19/270 qemu:qtest+qtest-aarch64 / qtest-aarch64/bios-tables-test > > TIMEOUT 610.02s killed by signal 15 SIGTERM > > ... > > stderr: > > TAP parsing error: Too few tests run (expected 8, got 7) > > > > At the same time overall job running time is only ~30 out of 1hr allowed. > > > > Increase bios-tables-test instance timeout on 5min as a fix > > for slow CI runners. > > > > Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imamm...@redhat.com> > > We can't just keep increasing the timeout. > The issue is checking wall time on a busy host, > isn't it? Let's check CPU time instead.
The last time this came up Stefan had a look and reckoned that the problem was that we try to run the qtests in parallel when the CI host is only giving us one CPU: https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/9692cfcb-ef59-4cec-8452-8bfb859e8...@weilnetz.de/ thanks -- PMM
