Re: macOS - Sequoia CI task is stuck on the Postgres Github CI

Hi,

On 2025-11-26 15:38:37 +0100, Álvaro Herrera wrote:
> > I noticed that the macOS – Sequoia CI task is stuck on the PostgreSQL
> > GitHub CI [1], while the same task runs successfully on the CFBot [2].
> > On the CFBot, the worker jc-m2-1 is used, but the PostgreSQL GitHub CI
> > does not show a specific worker name although it reports
> > instance:PersistentWorkerInstance.
>
> Maybe the problem is just that the macOS workers are too busy? If I go
> to https://cirrus-ci.com/github/postgres/postgres/master I see a bunch
> that are marked as "executing", and if you open those, you see that
> they're all waiting until the "MacOS - Sequoia" task to complete, which
> is state Scheduled. ... and while I was looking at one, it switched to
> running.

The runner was down trying to download a new version of the image, which was
slower than normal, which created a backlog. But now it's downloaded, and the
backlog should be processed in another ~20 minutes.

Separately: We do unfortunately have quite a few spurious failures
lately. NetBSD is the most common failing task, I think that really needs the
upgrade to IPC::Run we've been talking about... But there are some others too.

Greetings,

Andres Freund