Yesterday's problem? It turned
out to be a misconfiguration. Or rather, the configuration file format
changed enough to break the configuration files checked in for regression
testing.
Sometime since the last regression test, parameters that deal with time
can now take a suffix to denote the time unit being used (for example,
“9s” for 9 seconds, or “3d” for 3 days) and the base unit for
non-suffixed values changed (from “seconds” to “milliseconds” I'm
guessing) so what was once configured to time out in 15 seconds would now
timeout in 15 millisecconds, and thus, the one component would
think the other side timed out.
I saw the initial changes, but I neglected to update a few key parameters
properly. It's an easy thing to miss (as it took me two tries to change all
the affected parameters).
Sigh.
But that aside, the regression test finally ran (well, it's still
running—it takes hours for the thing to run).
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