[darcs-devel] help with buildbot on macos?

[Eric Kow]

> I'm running the OSX Tiger buildbot, and when I build Darcs on the same
>  machine, in the same account, with the same environment, the "make test"
>  runs to completion in *less* than the 1200 seconds the buildbot is
>  reporting a timeout after.  Could this be a problem with the buildbot
>  infrastructure on OSX?

I noticed something in the buildbot manual which might interest you.
Is there any chance it could be something like this?

--keepalive
    This is a number that indicates how frequently "keepalive"
messages should be sent from the buildslave to the buildmaster,
expressed in seconds. The default (600) causes a message to be sent to
the buildmaster at least once every 10 minutes. To set this to a lower
value, use e.g. --keepalive=120.

    If the buildslave is behind a NAT box or stateful firewall, these
messages may help to keep the connection alive: some NAT boxes tend to
forget about a connection if it has not been used in a while. When
this happens, the buildmaster will think that the buildslave has
disappeared, and builds will time out. Meanwhile the buildslave will
not realize than anything is wrong.

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