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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
Cc: Noah Misch <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Possible infinite loop on buildfarm animals
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2024 15:43:59 -0400
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]> writes:
> On 2024-Mar-17, Noah Misch wrote:
>> Other than CLOBBER_CACHE animals, the server rejects results older than 24h:
>> https://github.com/PGBuildFarm/server-code/blob/8572ac7/cgi-bin/pgstatus.pl#L273

>> The same 24h should probably be the default wait_timeout.  One might use a
>> longer timeout if wanting to attach a debugger to a process of a stuck run.
>> If one just wants an intervention-free buildfarm animal, 24h is good.

> Maybe that should be the default value embedded in the buildfarm client
> script, which can be overridden for specific purposes such as
> CLOBBER_CACHE animals?

We don't normally hard-wire such choices in the script, but it could
be plausible to change build-farm.conf.sample, perhaps like:

	# max time in seconds allowed for a single branch run
	# undef/0 means unlimited
-	wait_timeout => undef,
+	wait_timeout => 24 * 60 * 60,

			regards, tom lane

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