On Thu, 12 Sept 2024 at 16:10, Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> wrote: > > The cross-i686-tci CI job is persistently flaky with various tests > hitting timeouts. One theory for why this is happening is that we're > running too many tests in parallel and so sometimes a test gets > starved of CPU and isn't able to complete within the timeout. > > (The environment this CI job runs in seems to cause us to default > to a parallelism of 9 in the main CI.) > > Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> > --- > If this works we might be able to wind this up to -j2 or -j3, > and/or consider whether other CI jobs need something similar.
I gave this a try, but unfortunately the result seems to be that the whole job times out: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/jobs/7818441897 Maybe we could try a compromise of -j3 or thereabouts... -- PMM
