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Re: How load-intensive/long may a debci job be?



Hi Axel,

On 26-12-2018 19:38, Antonio Terceiro wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 25, 2018 at 11:22:58PM +0100, Axel Beckert wrote:
>> One idea is to rebuild that web page as part of the autopkgtest suite.
>> I though wonder if that's feasible at all:

>> * It will run for hours if not a day or two. (Only rebuilding the
>>   English part from scratch took nearly an hour on a ThinkPad X250.
>>   Rebuilding the German part took a little bit more than half an hour.
>>   There 39 supported languages, i.e. I'd expect it to run for about a
>>   day if needs to regenerate the whole website.)
> 
> This is a problem, as each test in autopkgtest has a timeout of ~ 2.5h
> by default. Maybe try having multiple tests, one for English and a few
> others for other languages.

Also note that your test will be run on more occasions than just your
uploads of wml, e.g. whenever your (recursive) dependencies get updated
and even periodically. One package with such a long running test is not
an issue, but we already have several heavy ones [1]. Please consider
carefully if this time is really worth it to catch issues. That said, if
you really think it is worth it, go ahead.

Paul

[1] https://ci.debian.net/status/slow/

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