From: Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 20:51:17 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Issue #11766: increase countdown waiting for a pool of processes to start
X-Git-Tag: v3.2.1b1~169
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=540ab064e2bfa5c5b05ccc78f0401c240a78ff16;p=python

Issue #11766: increase countdown waiting for a pool of processes to start
up.  Hopefully fixes transient buildbot failures.
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_multiprocessing.py b/Lib/test/test_multiprocessing.py
index ca20396616..768119c4c8 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_multiprocessing.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_multiprocessing.py
@@ -1170,7 +1170,8 @@ class _TestPoolWorkerLifetime(BaseTestCase):
         # Refill the pool
         p._repopulate_pool()
         # Wait until all workers are alive
-        countdown = 5
+        # (countdown * DELTA = 5 seconds max startup process time)
+        countdown = 50
         while countdown and not all(w.is_alive() for w in p._pool):
             countdown -= 1
             time.sleep(DELTA)