On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 5:39 PM, Zachary Ware <zachary.ware+py...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 12:03 AM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >> By the way, this looks odd: >> >> make buildbottest TESTOPTS= TESTPYTHONOPTS= TESTTIMEOUT=3600 >> in dir /root/buildarea/3.x.angelico-debian-amd64/build (timeout 3900 secs) >> >> The parameter says 3600 (which corresponds to the error message at the >> end), but it echoes back that the timeout is 3900 seconds. > > I'm no help on the main issue, but to explain the timeout difference: > TESTTIMEOUT is a makefile variable that sets the faulthandler timeout > that tries to make Python bail out with a stack trace instead of > letting buildbot kill Python silently. The 3900 second timeout is > buildbot's "there's been no output in this long, assume it's hung and > kill it" timeout. The difference between the two is to give > faulthandler a chance to do its thing.
Ah, cool. That's one mystery cleared up, at least. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
