+1

This seems the best workaround for now as it would take some time to fix 
the root cause of these timeouts.

On Monday, July 10, 2017 at 11:57:19 AM UTC+2, Erik Bray wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 4:25 PM, Kwankyu Lee <ekwa...@gmail.com 
> <javascript:>> wrote: 
> > Hi, 
> > 
> > Nowadays, it seems frequent that patchbots report "Timed out" failures. 
> The 
> > files "plot.py" and "test.py" are often to blame. These patchbot reports 
> are 
> > false in the sense that the ticket that is tested is not the cause of 
> the 
> > failure. 
> > 
> > What should we do? I can think of three options 
> > 
> > (1) Leave it as it is and live with it. 
> > (2) Increase default "Timed out" time limits by SAGE_TIMEOUT, 
> > SAGE_TIMEOUT_LONG variables. 
> > (3) Split the files that take long to be tested. 
>
> This is also an attempt to address this issue: 
> https://github.com/sagemath/sage-patchbot/pull/107 
>
> In fact, I already merged it so if whoever has access to the main 
> patchbot server wants to install this update then people can configure 
> their patchbots to add retries=1 or retries=2.  For me that works 
> quite nicely--tests that failed due to timeout will usually succeed on 
> a second attempt.  If it fails even on a second attempt that might 
> indicate a real problem. 
>

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