I will try 60 seconds and see how it goes.

On 16-02-09 05:47 AM, Marco Bonardo wrote:
> 90 seconds for a simple test sounds like a lot of time and a huge bump from
> the current situation (45).
> The risk is people will start writing much bigger tests instead of
> splitting them into smaller an more manageable tests. Plus when a test
> depends on a long timeout in the product, developers are used to figure out
> ways to reduce those (through hidden prefs or such) so that test can finish
> sooner and not timeout.
> Based on that, bumping the timeout may have 2 downsides, long term:
> - slower tests for everyone
> - sooner or later 90 seconds won't be enough again. Are we going to bump to
> 180 then?
> 
> I think that's the main reason the default timeout was set to a low value,
> while still allowing the multipliers as a special case for tests that
> really require bigger times, cause there's no other way out.
> 
> Is docker doubling the time for every test? From the bug looks like it may
> add 20-30% of overhead, so why are we not bumping the timeout of 30% (let's
> say 60s) and investigating the original cause (the bug that takes 80s to
> run) to figure if something can be done to make it finish sooner?
> 
> -m
> 
> 
> On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 11:51 PM, Armen Zambrano G. <arme...@mozilla.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>> In order to help us have less timeouts when running mochitests under
>> docker, we've decided to double mochitests' gTimeoutSeconds and reduce
>> large multipliers in half.
>>
>> Here's the patch if you're curious:
>>
>> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=splinter.html&bug=1246152&attachment=8717111
>>
>> If you have any comments or concerns please raise them in the bug.
>>
>> regards,
>> Armen
>>
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