Re: spoonbill vs. -HEAD

On 03/27/2013 03:49 PM, Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
> On 03/26/2013 10:18 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)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/4FE4B674.3020500@kaltenbrunner.cc)
> so I would really like to see an option for a global timeout.
>

I have been looking at it briefly. There are a few wrinkles, but it's on
the TODO list.

cheers

andrew

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> Stefan
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