Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] tests/boot-serial-test: Bump timeout to 6 minutes

[Peter Maydell]

On 18 August 2018 at 10:07, Thomas Huth <address@hidden> wrote:
> 6 minutes is really a lot already. I guess most users will hit CTRL-C
> before waiting so long if there is a realy problem here ... If the
> current tests just takes a little bit more than 1 minute on the Sparc
> machine, maybe 2 or 3 minutes would sufficient, too?

Or maybe not. I don't like tests that run close to their timeout
limits, because that tends to mean that my automated test runs
are flaky when the machine happens to be heavily loaded when
a test is running. I think the purpose of a timeout is to prevent
the test run hanging indefinitely; as you say, console users can
hit ctrl-c if they get bored anyway.

thanks
-- PMM