On 2011-11-29, at 10:00, Adam Roben wrote: > 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.
We used rsync for this in the distant past. It's a hassle from the point of view of the build master as it introduces a host of new authentication and permission issues. - Mark _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
