Bug#875324: diffoscope: Increased number of timeouts in recent versions?

[Mattia Rizzolo]

On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 04:33:55PM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote:
> One theory I've just thought of is that we are seeing more timeouts
> simply because we have seen a larger number of GCC uploads recently.
> 
> This not only produce either more diffoscope outputs in the first
> place (as it makes packages unreproducible), the ones that it does
> create are quite large.

That's certainly true.  After the gcc uploads I always had to reschedule
all packages built in the previous day with an unpatched GCC that also
were unreproducible, to weed out false positive; and not to say that
before those uploads the builds were hugely different due to build paths
variation.  So there were generally more diffoscope runs (which also
means more `objdump` processes, which tends to be heavy on the CPU),
which could just lead to a relevant increase of the general system load,
leading to a general slowness and also causing more "diffoscope
timeouts".

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