Windows test suite timeouts

[Mads Kiilerich]

Dirkjan Ochtman wrote, On 01/05/2013 10:40 AM:
> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 4:06 AM, Matt Harbison <matt_harbison at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Every so often, I've noticed that some tests on Windows will take a really
>> long time, and then timeout:
>>
>>    $ python run-tests.py -i test-largefiles.t
>>
>>    ERROR: c:\Users\Matt\Projects\hg\tests\test-largefiles.t timed out
>>    t
>>    Failed test-largefiles.t: timed out
>>    # Ran 1 tests, 0 skipped, 1 failed.
> Actually, on Gentoo, test-largefiles.t and test-mq.t have been timing
> out for a bunch of users, so I'm guessing that test's problems aren't
> only on Windows.

These tests _are_ big and will reach the timeout limit on slow or 
overloaded hardware. The timeout had to be increased on some of the 
buildbots.

In both cases: Are you sure the tests really are hanging, or are they 
just too slow?

/Mads