Arbitrary test timeout is too short for polkitbackendjsauthority

[vmihalko]

In GitLab by @smcv on Oct 28, 2021, 13:42

From a Debian x86_64 autobuilder log:

1/5 polkitunixusertest            OK              0.01s
2/5 polkitunixgrouptest           OK              0.01s
3/5 polkitunixnetgrouptest        OK              0.01s
4/5 polkitidentitytest            OK              0.01s
5/5 test-polkitbackendjsauthority OK             26.41s

This is uncomfortably close to Meson's 30s default timeout: even on x86, it would only take a small amount of extra load (or a slightly slower CPU?) to make this test time out. On slower CPU architectures like mips and riscv64, it does time out.

It would probably be a good idea to raise this timeout, perhaps to more like 2 minutes.

[vmihalko]

In GitLab by @smcv on Oct 28, 2021, 13:44

For now, I'm going to extend the timeout in the Debian packaging, so we can get a better idea of how long this actually takes in practice on slow/embedded CPUs.

[vmihalko]

In GitLab by @tomf on Jan 18, 2022, 15:08

I observe timeouts at 30s of test-polkitbackendjsauthority on an ARM Quad core Cortex-A53.

[vmihalko]

In GitLab by @smcv on Jan 26, 2022, 19:21

From the Debian autobuilders, which run on relatively "big" (server-class) machines for the various architectures:

• x86: 26-27s
• ARM: 27-31s
• ppc64el: 27s
• s390x: 25s
• mips: 29-30s

So I think maybe 60-120 seconds would be safer.

[vmihalko]

In GitLab by @smcv on Jan 26, 2022, 19:29

mentioned in commit smcv/polkit@4afd490b7587f91799bf948094861e210dca4802

[vmihalko]

In GitLab by @jrybar on Feb 21, 2022, 09:31

mentioned in commit smcv/polkit@f812483db4d48d23acf4605ff19be4787c6f8711