Skyrocketing test run times
Vlad Zahorodnii <[email protected]> Wed, 4 Feb 2026 09:25:06 +0200
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Hello, Over approximately the past weekend something happened in our CI and now it takes quite long time for tests to run. For example, in kwin, we have a test that used to run for about 20 seconds, and now it takes about 5 or so minutes to finish running. Speaking for kwin, there were no changes that could increase test run times so dramatically. January 26th: Start 61: kwin-testOutputChanges 61/158 Test #61: kwin-testOutputChanges ............................. Passed 19.36 sec January 29th: Start 61: kwin-testOutputChanges 61/158 Test #61: kwin-testOutputChanges ............................. Passed 43.93 sec January 30th: Start 61: kwin-testOutputChanges 61/158 Test #61: kwin-testOutputChanges ............................. Passed 45.91 sec Februrary 3rd: Start 61: kwin-testOutputChanges 61/158 Test #61: kwin-testOutputChanges ............................. Passed 254.19 sec FreeBSD appears to be fine. We suspect that test run times blew up due to enabling LSAN in various libraries (kwin itself has no LSAN enabled yet). The issue doesn't appear to be specific to only kwin, people reported that they've seen similar issues in other projects too. Maybe something else happened to CI that sysadmins will be able to clarify. Either way, the current state of CI is not great. Hypothetically, test timeouts can be increased but QSignalSpy's have hardcoded timeouts that can be too low for the current CI. And in case of kwin, 5 minutes for a test is simply not a workable thing. Regards, Vlad