[Python-Dev] Possible language summit topic: buildbots

[Antoine Pitrou]

Martin v. Löwis <martin <at> v.loewis.de> writes:
> 
> It's not really reproducible. I think it sometimes happens when I
> restart the master; sometimes, some clients fail to reconnect
> (properly).

Another common problem is that some buildbot fails in the middle of the test
suite, with the following kind of message:

command timed out: 1800 seconds without output, killing pid 12325
process killed by signal 9
program finished with exit code -1
elapsedTime=10910.362981

See for example :
http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/trunk.stable/builders/ia64%20Ubuntu%20trunk/builds/73/steps/test/logs/stdio

(notice, by the way, the elapsed time (10910s, that is, close to 3 hours...))

Regards

Antoine.