Re: buildfarm instance bichir stuck

On 4/7/21 1:07 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Robins Tharakan <tharakan(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> Not sure if many agree but 2 things stood out here:
>> 1) Buildfarm never got the message that a commit broke an instance. Ideally
>> I'd have expected buildfarm to have an optimistic timeout that could have
>> helped - for e.g. right now, the CREATE DATABASE is still stuck since 18
>> hrs.
> As far as that goes, you can set wait_timeout in the animal's config
> to something comfortably more than the longest run time you expect.
> It doesn't default to enabled though, possibly because picking a
> one-size-fits-all value would be impossible.
>
> I do use it on some of my flakier dinosaurs, and I've noticed that
> when it does kick in, the buildfarm run just stops dead and no report
> is sent to the BF server. That has advantages in not cluttering the
> BF status with run-failed-because-of-$weird_problem issues, but it
> doesn't help from the standpoint of noticing when your animal is stuck.
> Maybe it'd be better to change that behavior.
>

Yeah, I'll have a look. It's not simple for a bunch of reasons.

cheers

andrew

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