[issue46999] test_multiprocessing_fork running without any timeout

[Matthias Klose]

New submission from Matthias Klose <doko at debian.org>:

the test_multiprocessing_fork test is a bit unreliable, at least on both the Debian and Ubuntu test infrastructures, sometimes running for 100+ hours.  When running locally, I cannot reproduce these issues.  Note that the test and build infrastructure is usually limited to 4-6 cores and 20GB of RAM (including swap). What else could be an issue for these hangs?

How can this test reliably timeout?  I know it takes a few hours on slow architectures even when succeeding.

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components: Tests
messages: 415027
nosy: doko
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: test_multiprocessing_fork running without any timeout

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