On Nov 28, 2011, at 6:35 PM, Adam Roben wrote: > On Nov 26, 2011, at 3:34 AM, Nikolas Zimmermann wrote: > >> Good morning WebKit folks, >> >> I'm looking at build.webkit.org/waterfall, and see several bots which are >> idle, but still report "building < 1min" pretending they would do something. >> Does any of our build.webkit.org masters know the cause of this? They all >> seem to hang in the "upload" step. Can we detect these errors, and avoid >> that? >> Maybe sth. like a 30min timeout timer for this step? >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Niko >> >> P.S. I'm aware that a master restart would "fix this", but maybe we can try >> better and avoid that completely. > > More and more of these seemed to be piling up, so I restarted the master. I > don't know what causes them, though I suspect it has something to do with > slaves restarting during a download/upload step.
It looks like Buildbot doesn't have support for setting a timeout for file transfers. We could write our own file transfer step that uses rsync or similar, which would allow us to use the standard timeout mechanism. -Adam _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
