Idea: Fixing test flakiness

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libp2p implementation in Go

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Idea: Fixing test flakiness #2864

Open MarcoPolo opened 4 months ago

MarcoPolo commented 4 months ago

I have a theory that the reason why we see some test flakiness is because we are running tests in parallel on already starved GitHub actions VMs. This issue is about testing that theory and removing flakiness.

Some ideas:

Try not running tests in parallel. go test -p ./... instead.
- This will significantly slow down our test times. We could offset this by caching test results and only testing things that have changed.

MarcoPolo commented 4 months ago

Do we need to run 32bit tests still? Has this ever caught an issue? Is anyone running go-libp2p on a 32 bit system?