Re: [PATCH] gitlab-ci/cirrus: Increase timeout to 100 minutes

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Tue, 12 Sept 2023 at 09:53, Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 09:38:29AM -0400, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> > The 80m timeout is not enough:
> >
> >   672/832 qemu:block / io-qcow2-041          OK             39.77s   1 
> > subtests passed
> >   Timed out!
>
> IIUC, that 'timed out' message is coming from Cirrus CI logs, which
> we can see over on the cirrus task:
>
>   https://cirrus-ci.com/task/6462328380588032
>
> > https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/jobs/5058610599
>
> This reports duration "64 minutes", vs a GitLab timeout of 1hr20.
>
> IOW, we're not hitting the gitlab timeout, we're hitting hte
> Cirrus CI timeout, which defaults to 60 minutes.  The other
> 4 minuts gitlab reports is likely because Cirrus queued the
> job for 4 minutes before starting execution.

I'm glad you spotted that. I'm not familiar with Cirrus. Could you
send a patch that sets 'timeout_in'?

Thanks,
Stefan

>
> >
> > Buglink: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/1882
> > Fixes: d06f3bf92267 ("gitlab-ci/cirrus: Increase timeout to 80 minutes")
> > Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  .gitlab-ci.d/cirrus.yml | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.d/cirrus.yml b/.gitlab-ci.d/cirrus.yml
> > index 41d64d6680..d19633f758 100644
> > --- a/.gitlab-ci.d/cirrus.yml
> > +++ b/.gitlab-ci.d/cirrus.yml
> > @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
> >    stage: build
> >    image: registry.gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt-ci/cirrus-run:master
> >    needs: []
> > -  timeout: 80m
> > +  timeout: 100m
> >    allow_failure: true
> >    script:
> >      - source .gitlab-ci.d/cirrus/$NAME.vars
>
> IIUC, we need to put a 'timeout_in' setting someone in
> .gitlab-ci.d/cirrus/build.yml instead, to override
> Cirrus 60 minute limit:
>
> https://cirrus-ci.org/faq/#instance-timed-out
>
>
> With regards,
> Daniel
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