Message 317871 - Python tracker

Message317871

Author	vstinner
Recipients	asvetlov, christian.heimes, giampaolo.rodola, ned.deily, terry.reedy, vstinner, yselivanov
Date	2018-05-28.15:39:57
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Message-id	<1527521997.64.0.682650639539.issue32458@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> Yeah, I agree. The current timeout for the test is 5 seconds and it tries to transfer 2mb of data, which isn't that much actually. I'll bump the timeout and reduce the amount of data transferred in https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/7130 What is the purpose of a timeout of 5 seconds? Some buildbots are really slow. If the purpose is to detect when the test hangs: use a timeout of 5 minutes, or at least 1 minute (60 seconds).

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> Yeah, I agree. The current timeout for the test is 5 seconds and it tries to transfer 2mb of data, which isn't that much actually.  I'll bump the timeout and reduce the amount of data transferred in https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/7130

What is the purpose of a timeout of 5 seconds? Some buildbots are really slow.

If the purpose is to detect when the test hangs: use a timeout of 5 minutes, or at least 1 minute (60 seconds).

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