There are 10 test. Some of them gets completed. And then, I look at it again, tests have restarted, and less number of tests are passed at that point.

1. What is the reason of restarts?

2. What is reason of long waiting time? Sometimes number of passed tests stay there 2-3 days.

On 24.04.2016 21:26, tcak wrote:
> There are 10 test. Some of them gets completed. And then, I look at it
> again, tests have restarted, and less number of tests are passed at that
> point.
>
> 1. What is the reason of restarts?

Something else has been pulled. That changes the code that's being tested, so all tests need to restarted.

> 2. What is reason of long waiting time? Sometimes number of passed tests
> stay there 2-3 days.

The pull request is probably not a priority for the auto-tester. Pull requests that have been marked for auto-merging have priority over others. I'm not sure, but the auto-tester may also prioritize requests with recent activity over older ones.

On Sunday, 24 April 2016 at 19:26:43 UTC, tcak wrote:
> 2. What is reason of long waiting time? Sometimes number of passed tests stay there 2-3 days.

There's a windows tester (win-farm-1) that takes 1 hour to complete each single test while most of the other testers usually take 10 to 20 minutes. On high activity period it's almost impossible to get an old PR fully tested. Each time someone amends or fixes-up something the slow machines take the new stuffs before.

For example look at this one:
https://auto-tester.puremagic.com/pull-history.ghtml?projectid=1&repoid=3&pullid=4204

win_32_64 (win-farm-1) has only run **once** while FreeBSD_32 has run **21 times** !!

On 25/04/2016 5:44 AM, ag0aep6g wrote:
> On 24.04.2016 21:26, tcak wrote:
>> There are 10 test. Some of them gets completed. And then, I look at it
>> again, tests have restarted, and less number of tests are passed at that
>> point.
>>
>> 1. What is the reason of restarts?
>
> Something else has been pulled. That changes the code that's being
> tested, so all tests need to restarted.
>
>> 2. What is reason of long waiting time? Sometimes number of passed tests
>> stay there 2-3 days.
>
> The pull request is probably not a priority for the auto-tester. Pull
> requests that have been marked for auto-merging have priority over
> others. I'm not sure, but the auto-tester may also prioritize requests
> with recent activity over older ones.

Yes, if you rebase and force-push your pull will be put at the top of the list.