[ARROW-12143] [CI] R builds should timeout and fail after some threshold and dump the output.

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.0.0
• Component/s: CI, Continuous Integration, R
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/27965
• Assignee: Weston Pace
• Reporter: Weston Pace
• Created: 29/Mar/21 20:21
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 08:24
• Resolved: 31/Mar/21 23:12

Description

Currently, if an R test hangs, then it is very difficult to determine what the root cause is because it just outputs "checking tests".  It also slows down the CI pipeline because it doesn't time out for 6 hours.

I'm hoping we can instead kill the test after some unreasonable amount of time has passed and dump whatever output has been generated so far.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #9846