In tests on CI, store the test DBs in memory to fix self-hosted Semaphore runners sometimes hanging#51
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oh goodness. no wonder that took so long to figure out xD great job! ^-^ |
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This is with high certainty the cause of the Semaphore hangs we have seen in the past, which took @rlycx, @ReinierMaas, @SanderHageman and myself a huuuge amount of work to debug: There is an interaction between writing a file to
/tmp/(which, to my surprise, is not atmpfsin Semaphore) on Butterfs when using many small fsyncs (which as it turns out, Sqlite does when initializing a new DB, esp in WAL mode), and then doing this for dozens of tests in parallel.This will cause one of these
fsyncs to hang for many minutes on end, with the OS busy doing some kind of disk vacuuming.This PR changes Opsqueue to run in a 100% in-memory mode in the integration test suite instead.