Re: [PATCH] Increase timeout for tests and syntax-check

On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 06:59:58PM +0100, Michal Privoznik wrote: > Since we've switched to meson our tests run with a timeout (meson > uses 30 seconds as the default). However, not every machine that > builds libvirt is fast enough to run every test under 30 seconds > (each test binary has its own timeout, but still). For instance > when building a package for distro on a farm that's under load. > Or on a generally slow ARM hardware. While each developer can > tune their command line for building by adding > --timeout-multiplier=10, this is hard to do for aforementioned > build farms. I don't get why it is hard for build farms. Someone, somwhere is writing the script that invokes meson & ninja with some args. Why is it hard to add --timeout-multiplier=10 too ? > It's time to admit that not everybody has the latest, top shelf > CPU and increase the timeout. I'm not convinced we want to optimize for the slowest hardware we can find, especially when there's an easy option of setting --timeout-multiplier=10.