On 18 August 2018 at 10:07, Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> wrote: > 6 minutes is really a lot already. I guess most users will hit CTRL-C > before waiting so long if there is a realy problem here ... If the > current tests just takes a little bit more than 1 minute on the Sparc > machine, maybe 2 or 3 minutes would sufficient, too?
Or maybe not. I don't like tests that run close to their timeout limits, because that tends to mean that my automated test runs are flaky when the machine happens to be heavily loaded when a test is running. I think the purpose of a timeout is to prevent the test run hanging indefinitely; as you say, console users can hit ctrl-c if they get bored anyway. thanks -- PMM
