fix: add explicit step-level timeout to Go workflow Test step

[erraggy]

Summary

Adds explicit timeout-minutes: 10 to the Test step in the Go workflow to align with the go test -timeout=10m configuration.

Problem

The Go workflow is experiencing unexpected timeouts at approximately 60 seconds despite having:

• Job-level timeout: timeout-minutes: 10 (600 seconds)
• Go test timeout: -timeout=10m (600 seconds)

The workflow is being killed with exit code 143 (SIGTERM) after only ~63 seconds, suggesting something is timing out before the configured values.

Root Cause

Investigation revealed that while we have a job-level timeout configured, we don't have an explicit step-level timeout for the Test step. Without this, the default step timeout of 360 minutes applies, but the actual behavior shows premature termination.

Solution

Add explicit timeout-minutes: 10 to the Test step to:

1. Make timeout configuration more explicit and easier to debug
2. Align step-level timeout with go test timeout
3. Help identify whether the issue is with GitHub Actions behavior or actual test hangs

Changes

• .github/workflows/go.yml: Added timeout-minutes: 10 to Test step

Testing

This change will be tested by monitoring the workflow runs to see if:

1. The timeout behavior changes
2. We get clearer feedback about what's timing out
3. Tests complete successfully within the 10-minute window

Related

Part of investigation documented in plan: Fix Go Workflow Test Timeout Issue

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Pull request overview

This PR adds an explicit step-level timeout to the Test step in the Go workflow to help diagnose and resolve timeout issues. The change adds timeout-minutes: 10 to align with the go test -timeout=10m configuration, making the timeout behavior more explicit.

Key Change:

• Adds step-level timeout-minutes: 10 to the Test step in the Go workflow

[erraggy]

Investigation Update

After investigation, I've discovered that:

1. Tests pass consistently locally - All tests complete in ~1.3 seconds with a 2-minute timeout

2. The issue is intermittent in CI - Checking recent main branch runs shows a pattern of intermittent failures:

   • Success: 22 seconds (run ci(benchmark): add parallel CI benchmark workflow #187)
   • Failure: 1m18s with exit code 143 (run chore: add CI benchmarks for v1.18.0–v1.33.1 (20 versions) #190)
   • This pattern repeats across multiple runs

3. Root cause: GitHub Actions runner instability, not hanging tests

   • Exit code 143 = SIGTERM (external process termination)
   • No configured timeout is being reached (8m go test, 10m step)
   • The runner itself appears to be killing processes sporadically

Recommendation

Rather than pursuing timeouts, we should add automatic retry logic to handle these intermittent runner failures. The step-level timeout addition in this PR is still good practice, but won't solve the underlying issue.

I recommend:

• Merge this PR for the explicit timeout documentation
• Add GitHub Actions retry logic in a follow-up PR to handle intermittent failures

[erraggy]

Root Cause Identified: Resource Contention

You were absolutely right about resource constraints! The issue is CPU contention on GitHub Actions runners.

Investigation Details

GitHub Actions Runners:

• 2 CPU cores
• 7 GB RAM

Our Test Configuration (before fix):

• -parallel=4 (up to 4 packages running concurrently)
• No GOMAXPROCS limit (defaults to available CPUs)
• Result: 4 parallel test processes competing for 2 CPU cores = severe contention

Evidence

1. Local tests pass instantly (~3 seconds) on powerful dev machine
2. CI shows intermittent failures at ~60 seconds with exit code 143 (SIGTERM)
3. Pattern matches resource exhaustion: Runner kills process when it can't keep up

Solution Applied

Latest commit reduces test parallelism to match runner resources:

• -parallel=2 (match runner CPU count)
• GOMAXPROCS=2 (prevent Go runtime from over-subscribing)
• Kept explicit timeouts for graceful handling

This should eliminate the intermittent SIGTERM failures by preventing resource contention.

[erraggy]

✅ ROOT CAUSE IDENTIFIED: Fuzz Test Corpus Resource Exhaustion

The issue is fuzz test corpus execution consuming excessive resources, causing GitHub Actions runners to terminate the job.

The Smoking Gun

Parser package behavior in CI:

• Parser is the ONLY package with a fuzz test (FuzzParseBytes)
• Parser is the ONLY package that never completes in CI
• Runner shutdown occurs right after joiner completes (when parser would be running)
• Error message: "The runner has received a shutdown signal"

Fuzz test resource consumption:

• 19 seed corpus entries + 2 generated test cases = 21 test executions
• Each execution runs ParseBytes(data, resolveRefs=true, validateStructure=true)
• This is the most resource-intensive code path (parsing + validation + ref resolution)
• Running with -parallel=2 means 2 packages testing concurrently, each potentially running fuzz corpus

Why This Happens

When you run go test, Go automatically executes fuzz test corpus as regression tests. On a resource-constrained GitHub Actions runner (2 CPU, 7GB RAM), running 21 resource-intensive parse operations was enough to trigger runner termination.

Solution Applied

Latest commit isolates fuzz tests:

1. Main test run: Skip fuzz tests with -skip='^Fuzz'
2. Separate fuzz corpus step:
   • Run only parser fuzz tests: go test -run='^Fuzz' ./parser
   • Limit to single CPU: GOMAXPROCS=1
   • Shorter timeout: 2 minutes
   • Prevents resource spike that triggers runner shutdown

This maintains fuzz corpus regression testing while preventing the resource exhaustion that was killing our CI runs.