ci: re-measure the JRuby retry budget, which the suite had outgrown - #289
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`jruby-10.0/rails80` timed out on master run 32763256451 and took the whole
run red. Tests were still printing dots when SIGTERM landed, so the cell was
SLOW, not hung -- and the same cell had passed the previous three runs.
The 15-minute per-attempt budget was sized from run 32643567648, where a clean
JRuby attempt was 545-713s: "~26% headroom over the slowest", as the comment
says. That measurement is stale. Re-measured on run 32758898367, the last green
one before this bit:
rails71 652s
rails81 740s
rails80 870s
rails72 881s <- against a 900s cap
The suite grew from 646 to 757 runs in between (#274, #277, #278, #279, #283),
and the headroom went with it: 881/900 is 2%. The cells have been passing by
seconds, which is why this looked stable for three runs and then was not.
20 minutes restores the ~26% margin this was originally sized for, and the job
cap follows to keep the arithmetic true: 1 + 20 + 20 = 41. Both numbers move
together on purpose -- a per-attempt timeout that does not fit the cap kills
the last attempt mid-run and reports `cancelled`, which reads as an absence
rather than a failure.
MRI is unchanged: 128s against 3 minutes.
Costs nothing on a green run; it is a ceiling, not a sleep.
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Reviewer's guide (collapsed on small PRs)Reviewer's GuideThe workflow re-measures JRuby runtime growth and increases both the per-attempt retry timeout and overall job timeout from 15/31 to 20/41 minutes, preserving retry completion and restoring approximately 26% headroom while keeping MRI limits unchanged. File-Level Changes
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe test workflow increases JRuby matrix and retry-attempt timeouts. MRI timeout values remain unchanged. Comments update the runtime and suite-duration calculations. ChangesWorkflow timeout configuration
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In @.github/workflows/test.yml:
- Around line 113-114: Update the timeout rationale comments near the workflow
timeout configuration: state the JRuby calculation as 3x20=60 > 41, set each
JRuby attempt’s timeout_minutes below 16 if its job cap is 16 minutes, and
revise the 881-second explanation to say that 20 minutes provides approximately
36% more time.
Apply the same fix in @.github/workflows/test.yml around lines 181 - 183:
Covered by the corrected headroom arithmetic in the consolidated comment.
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Please update the JRuby timeout rationale comments to match the new values and arithmetic: change JRuby 3x15=45 > 25 to JRuby 3x20=60 > 41, and describe 20 minutes as approximately 36% more time than the measured 881-second runtime. Keep any future job cap above the per-attempt timeout, or reduce the per-attempt timeout if the cap is lowered below 20 minutes.
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In @.github/workflows/test.yml around lines 113 - 114, Update the timeout
rationale comments near the workflow timeout configuration: state the JRuby
calculation as 3x20=60 > 41, set each JRuby attempt’s timeout_minutes below 16
if its job cap is 16 minutes, and revise the 881-second explanation to say that
20 minutes provides approximately 36% more time.
Apply the same fix in @.github/workflows/test.yml around lines 181 - 183:
Covered by the corrected headroom arithmetic in the consolidated comment.
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`3.3/rails81` timed out on run 32889000873 and cancelled nine sibling cells with it. Tests were still printing dots when SIGTERM landed -- slow, not hung, the same signature as the JRuby timeout #289 fixed a release earlier. #289 left the MRI number alone on the grounds that "MRI is 128s against 3 min and does not move". That was true when written. Measured now on run 32770212615, the last green master run: 3.4/rails81 78s 4.0/rails72 89s 3.4/rails80 123s 4.0/rails80 131s 3.4/rails71 132s 3.4/rails72 134s 3.3/rails81 144s <- against a 180s cap, and the cell that timed out 4.0/edge 146s 23% headroom at the slowest, down from the ~40% the 3-minute figure was chosen for. 4 minutes puts it back to ~64%, and the job cap follows so the arithmetic stays true: 1 + 4 + 4 = 9. The comment now says the general thing outright, because this is twice: these numbers are MEASUREMENTS, not settings. A suite that grows silently erodes every budget derived from it, and the failure mode is a cell that has been passing by seconds until the day it does not. Costs nothing on a green run -- it is a ceiling, not a sleep. YAML validated.
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jruby-10.0/rails80timed out on master run 32763256451 and took the run red. Tests were still printing dots when SIGTERM landed — the cell was slow, not hung — and the same cell passed the previous three runs.The budget was sized from a measurement the suite outgrew
The comment states its basis: run
32643567648, a clean JRuby attempt of 545–713s, "~26% headroom over the slowest."Re-measured on run
32758898367, the last green run before this bit:The suite grew 646 → 757 runs in between (#274, #277, #278, #279, #283). Headroom went from 26% to 2%. The cells have been passing by seconds — which is exactly why it looked stable for three runs and then wasn't.
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20minutes restores the ~26% margin it was originally sized for, and the job cap follows so the arithmetic stays true: 1 + 20 + 20 = 41.Both numbers move together deliberately — a per-attempt timeout that doesn't fit the job cap kills the last attempt mid-run and reports
cancelled, which reads as an absence rather than a failure. That failure mode hid the JRuby lane for 15 runs before #283.MRI unchanged: 128s against 3 minutes.
Costs nothing on a green run — it is a ceiling, not a sleep. YAML validated.
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Increase the JRuby CI timeout budget to accommodate the suite’s growth and avoid misleading cancelled runs.
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