Re: s390 private runner CI job timing out

[Thomas Huth]

On 05/04/2023 17.15, Peter Maydell wrote:
> The s390 private runner CI job ubuntu-20.04-s390x-all seems to have
> started timing out a lot recently. Here's an example where it passed,
> but with only 53 seconds left on the clock before it would have been
> killed:
>
> https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/jobs/4066136770
>
> It looks like 'make check' was about 30 minutes of the 75 minutes
> total, and compilation was 45 minutes.
>
> Any suggestions for how we can trim this down? (Presumably we
> could also raise the time limit given that this is a private
> runner job...)

I don't have access to that system, so I can only guess: Did you check 
whether there are any other processes still running (leftovers from earlier 
test runs)? If not, it's maybe because it is a VM that is running with other 
VMs in parallel that hog the CPU? In that case, you could contact the owner 
of the machine and ask whether there  is anything that could be done about 
it. Or simply increase the timeout a little bit more... (our highest timeout 
in another job is 90 minutes, so I think that would still be OK?).

 Thomas