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From: Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: buildfarm client release 4.18
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 22:34:38 -0400
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On 10/11/2016 08:51 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]> writes:
>>    * There is a new config parameter "wait_timeout", which defaults to
>>      undefined. If it is set then any run that takes longer than the
>>      specified number of seconds is aborted. That means that runs that
>>      get stuck will time out, and the whole animal won't be stuck and
>>      requiring manual intervention. My test animal has a setting of 3 *
>>      3600, i.e. 3 hours. There is some possible danger in this, that we
>>      might miss bugs that cause us to get stuck, so at least some animals
>>      should not use this feature.
> Hm, do you mean that if the timeout is exceeded, it just shuts down and
> doesn't report the failure?  If there is a report I don't see how we'd
> "miss" anything.
>
> 			


Yeah, unfortunately. I can look at making it report something, not sure 
exactly how much will be possible.

cheers

andrew


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