Perhaps it would be useful to have a parallellism group opti

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Perhaps it would be useful to have a parallellism group option for tests where a set of tests can be grouped and an option telling how many of those that may run in parallell as I think that running too many in parallell seems to saturate available resources

curved-television-6568 · Answer

Example observed locally ```09 17 15 53 ERROR Completed Run Pytest src python pants backend docker lint hadolint rules integration test py tests failed exit code 15 Exceeded timeout of 60 0 seconds when executing local process Run Pytest for src python pants backend docker lint hadolint rules integration test py tests``` When run on all docker tests at once Singling out the above test simply re running the others had cached results ```09 25 21 35 INFO Completed Run Pytest src python pants backend docker goals package image integration test py tests succeeded 09 25 40 52 INFO Completed Run Pytest src python pants backend docker lint hadolint rules integration test py tests succeeded ``` It completes just shy of 20s

witty-crayon-22786 · Answer

maybe but more generally if there was more assistance in setting timeouts such that maybe they weren t enforced locally and were just warnings would help with figuring out how to set these

witty-crayon-22786 · Answer

because there can be lots of reasons for contention