Fix the llm_eval timeout: reachable MMLU mirror + no pipe deadlock - #2270
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe command runner now streams and captures subprocess output through a reader thread, manages process groups, and cleans up descendants that keep pipes open. MMLU setup now downloads a temporary archive from Hugging Face with timeouts, retries, resume support, and updated documentation. ChangesSubprocess output handling
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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The change improves timeout diagnostics and uses a reachable MMLU mirror with bounded retries, but the example workflow still has a resume-related temporary-file gap and the regression test can leak descendants or allow a slower-than-intended cleanup path. It is mergeable with explicit owner follow-up. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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Small, well-motivated infra fix (+58/-7) and the diagnosis in the PR body is convincing: subprocess.run(stdout=PIPE) waits for pipe EOF, so a SIGKILLed launcher with a surviving grandchild hangs and discards all output. The reader-thread + start_new_session + killpg rewrite is a reasonable, contained fix and keeps the (returncode, output) contract.
Findings (none are hard blockers, but worth addressing before merge):
- A dead Berkeley URL is left behind. The PR's stated goal is "reachable MMLU mirror", but
examples/windows/accuracy_benchmark/README.mdstill tells users tocurl -o .\data\mmlu.tar https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~hendrycks/data.tar. That's the only other occurrence in the repo; it should be flipped to the same HF mirror in this PR. process.wait()is still unbounded. The second half of the failure (child alive, wget spinning) is fixed at the source inhuggingface_example.sh, but the harness itself still burns the full pytest budget for any hung child. Worse, withstart_new_session=Truethe child is now in its own session, so when pytest-timeout fires the child/descendants are no longer in pytest's process group and are less likely to be reaped by the runner's cleanup. Consider an optional overall timeout that kills the group and returns the captured logs.wget --timeout=20is a read timeout too, applied to a 166 MB transfer with--tries=3and no resume — a 20 s stall on a slow runner restarts from zero.--connect-timeout=20 --read-timeout=60 -cwould be more robust while keeping the bounded-failure property.- No test, though the reproducer in the PR body is testable. Monkeypatching
_ORPHAN_PIPE_TIMEOUT_Sto ~1 s and runningbash -c "sleep 30 & echo hi; kill -9 $$"gives a deterministic, CPU-only unit test for exactly the regression this PR fixes (rc == -9, "hi" captured, wall time bounded).
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In `@examples/hf_ptq/scripts/huggingface_example.sh`:
- Around line 324-325: Replace the predictable /tmp/mmlu.tar output in the wget
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path for subsequent extraction and cleanup operations instead of hardcoded
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- Line 158: Update the README’s MMLU download command to use wget with a
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In `@examples/hf_ptq/scripts/huggingface_example.sh`:
- Around line 321-326: Update the MMLU download flow around MMLU_TAR and wget so
retries can resume a partial download: use a stable file path and wget
--continue without -O, and avoid deleting the partial file on failure before a
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In `@examples/windows/accuracy_benchmark/README.md`:
- Line 44: Update the Download MMLU Data command to invoke native curl.exe
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- Around line 85-93: Exclude the POSIX-only run-command regression test from the
Windows job, since it invokes bash and uses os.killpg for cleanup. Update the
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Re-review of PR #2270 (5 files, +109/-9). All four findings from the previous review have been acted on:
- Dead Berkeley URL elsewhere in the repo — fixed (
examples/windows/accuracy_benchmark/README.mdnow usescurl.exe -Lagainst the HF mirror;curlin Windows PowerShell 5.1 is anInvoke-WebRequestalias, so the.exeis required for-L). wget --timeout=20is a read timeout on a 166 MB transfer — fixed (--connect-timeout=20 --read-timeout=60 --tries=3 -c), withmktemp+EXITtrap for the archive (verified it's the onlytrapin the script).- No test for the regression — fixed:
tests/unit/test_example_run_command.pyreproduces exactly the failure mode (survivor holds the inherited pipe, launcher SIGKILLed), assertsrc == -9, that the pre-kill line was captured, and that wall time is bounded; gated behind the repo'sskip_on_windowsfixture sincetests/unitalso runs on the Windows job and the helper usesbash/os.killpg. - Reader-thread teardown noise —
_drainnow wraps the read loop incontextlib.suppress(ValueError).
The harness code itself reads correctly: pgid is captured before wait() reaps the child, start_new_session makes process.pid the group id, and with no timeout_method set in pyproject.toml pytest-timeout uses the signal method, so the new except BaseException: killpg path does fire on a pytest timeout. The new test file's header is the project's standard Apache-2.0 header and the insert-license hook passes --allow-past-years, so the 2024/2026 year difference is not a licensing issue.
Two owner calls remain, hence a nudge rather than an approve:
- 💬 Author replied on the unbounded
process.wait(): no non-arbitrary timeout value exists across callers, pytest-timeout already bounds the wall clock, and what was missing was cleanup — now handled by theexcept BaseExceptionkillpg — still worth a look because a live-but-hung child (the wget-retry mode this PR fixes at the source) still consumes the caller's whole budget, and if pytest is killed without unwinding (e.g. CI kills the pytest process group), the now-detached session leaks. The author offered an opt-intimeout=parameter; your call whether to take it. - 💬 Author replied on
-cwith-O: empirically verified GNU Wget 1.21 issues a Range request and gets206against this endpoint, andmktempguarantees no stale partial to resume onto — reasonable, though the GNU manual documents-Oas truncating, so the resume benefit may silently not apply on other wget builds. Worst case is a full re-fetch, so this is not a blocker. I also could not independently verify thathttps://huggingface.co/datasets/cais/mmlu/resolve/main/data.tarserves thedata/{dev,test,val}layout the script expects — CI will confirm.
Minor, unaddressed and fine to leave: examples/llm_eval/README.md still uses bare wget (no bounded retries / failure guard) — it's a manual doc step, so the blast radius is a user waiting rather than a test timing out.
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subprocess.run waits for EOF on the output pipe, not for the process. When a command is killed without its descendants -- an OOM-killed huggingface_example.sh leaving a serve process behind -- the survivor keeps the inherited pipe open, so the read blocks until the test's timeout and every captured log line is lost. test_qwen3_eval_fp8 has been failing this way on unrelated branches: Popen reporting returncode -9 while still blocked in stdout.read(), 900s later. Run the command in its own session, drain its output on a reader thread so logs stream as they arrive, wait on the process, and kill the process group if descendants still hold the pipe after a grace period. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Keval Morabia <28916987+kevalmorabia97@users.noreply.github.com>
people.eecs.berkeley.edu stopped answering around 2026-08-25, so the MMLU step of huggingface_example.sh retried for the whole of test_qwen3_eval_fp8's 900s budget and the nightlies have failed since 08-26. Use HuggingFace's copy of the same tarball (identical layout: dev/test/val + auxiliary_train), and bound the retries so an unreachable host fails in a minute with an actionable message. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Keval Morabia <28916987+kevalmorabia97@users.noreply.github.com>
wget's --timeout also caps the read, so a stall during the 166MB transfer aborted a try and restarted it from zero; use separate connect/read timeouts with -c. Fetch into a mktemp path rather than a predictable one, and update the last copy of the dead Berkeley URL in the Windows accuracy-benchmark README. In the runner, kill the process group when wait() is interrupted -- pytest-timeout does not sweep up the child's own group -- and let the reader exit quietly when the stream closes under it. Adds the regression test for the pipe deadlock. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Keval Morabia <28916987+kevalmorabia97@users.noreply.github.com>
PowerShell's curl is an Invoke-WebRequest alias with no -L, so the Windows README needs curl.exe. The pipe regression test needs bash and os.killpg, and tests/unit also runs on the Windows job, so gate it on skip_on_windows. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Keval Morabia <28916987+kevalmorabia97@users.noreply.github.com>
The regression test only checked that _run_capturing returns and warns, so it still passed with the process-group kill removed while the survivor stayed alive. Record the survivor pid and assert it is gone once the call returns. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Keval Morabia <28916987+kevalmorabia97@users.noreply.github.com>
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- Around line 44-53: Update the test cleanup around the survivor PID and
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Full coverage — all 5 changed files reviewed (2 source: tests/_test_utils/examples/run_command.py, examples/hf_ptq/scripts/huggingface_example.sh; 1 new test; 2 README line edits). No modelopt/ files touched, so the mode/state, export, and public-API categories don't apply here.
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Both halves of the diagnosis hold up. The pipe-deadlock analysis is correct: subprocess.run(stdout=PIPE) waits for EOF on the pipe, not for the process, so a surviving grandchild holding the write end blocks communicate() indefinitely and discards the buffered output — exactly the "900 s timeout with an empty log" signature in CI. Draining on a reader thread while waiting on the process is the right fix, and streaming as lines arrive (rather than buffering to the end) is a real diagnostic improvement for the long example runs. Handling BaseException rather than Exception on the wait is a nice detail — pytest.fail.Exception and KeyboardInterrupt are both BaseException subclasses, so the timeout and Ctrl-C paths genuinely do reach the group kill. Reading pgid before the wait instead of calling os.getpgid() after it shows the author thought about the reap ordering.
The MMLU mirror change is well-scoped: I grepped the tree and all three references to the dead people.eecs.berkeley.edu host are gone, with none left behind — the shell script, examples/llm_eval/README.md, and the Windows README (which correctly gained curl.exe -L, since the HF resolve/ endpoint redirects to a CDN and the old command would have written the redirect body to mmlu.tar). Bounding wget's retries is the actual behavioral fix; the default 20-tries policy outlasting the caller's timeout was the mechanism that ate the 900 s budget.
The new unit test is better than the PR description's "❌ no tests" suggests — it reproduces the real scenario (survivor inherits the pipe, launcher SIGKILLs itself), monkeypatches the grace period so it runs in ~1.5 s, and asserts the three things that matter: the return code survives, the output survives, and the survivor is actually killed rather than merely orphaned.
The one thing worth fixing before merge
pgid can be recycled before the group kill fires (inline). process.wait() reaps the child, which releases the pid that is the pgid; the killpg then happens up to 30 s later. If the kernel has reissued that pid to a new group leader in the interim, this SIGKILLs an unrelated process group on the runner — silently, and looking exactly like an unrelated flake. os.waitid(os.P_PID, pid, os.WEXITED | os.WNOWAIT) observes the exit without reaping; the zombie holds the pid, so the pgid can't be reused, and reaping after the kill also closes the zombie/fd leak the current raise path leaves behind. Small, local change.
The three SUGGESTIONs (double-spent grace period, POSIX-only killpg in a previously portable helper, and pinning the HF revision + dropping the 166 MB tarball after extraction) are non-blocking.
One note on the PR description rather than the code: the observation that test_qwen3_eval_fp8 sat at 749 s against a 900 s budget on the last green nightly is the more durable risk here. This PR makes that fragility visible instead of fixing it — worth a follow-up issue so it isn't rediscovered as another mystery timeout.
Risk: low. Test infrastructure and example scripts only; no library code, no public API, and _run_capturing keeps its (returncode, output) contract.
Reaping the child frees its pid, and pgid == that pid, so a kill after the wait could in principle signal a recycled group. Wait with WNOWAIT and reap only once the group is dealt with; fall back to killing the command itself off POSIX. Pin the mirror to a commit rather than main -- an unpinned artifact moving is what started this -- and drop the 166MB archive as soon as it is extracted. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Keval Morabia <28916987+kevalmorabia97@users.noreply.github.com>
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[SUGGESTION] os.waitid doesn't exist on Windows, so the os.name != "posix" fallback you added in _kill_process_group (L97-98) is unreachable — and worse, the failure mode there is now hostile.
On Windows this line raises AttributeError: module 'os' has no attribute 'waitid'. AttributeError is a BaseException, so the except BaseException below catches it, calls _kill_process_group() — which kills the child that was running perfectly fine — and then re-raises the AttributeError. So the branch written to make the helper degrade gracefully off-POSIX can never run, and the helper doesn't just fail, it kills the command first.
No functional impact today: the only Windows job is unit_tests.yml's windows runner over tests/unit, and the one caller there (test_example_run_command.py) is behind skip_on_windows. So this is about the code saying something it can't do.
Two coherent options — either is fine:
- Gate the wait the same way the kill is gated, so the Windows path is real:
try:
if os.name == "posix":
# Wait *without* reaping (WNOWAIT): a reaped pid can be recycled, and pgid == the
# child's pid, so reaping before the kill below would risk signalling an unrelated group.
os.waitid(os.P_PID, process.pid, os.WEXITED | os.WNOWAIT)
else:
process.wait() # no process groups to protect a pid for
except BaseException:
...- Or accept that this helper is POSIX-only (it is:
killpg,SIGKILL,start_new_session, session semantics), drop theelse: process.kill()branch, and say so in the docstring. That's less code and less pretend-portability.
I'd lean toward (2) unless you expect a Windows caller.
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[SUGGESTION] The escape path still never reaps the child, which is a new consequence of switching to WNOWAIT.
Previously subprocess.run reaped on every exit path. Now os.waitid(..., WNOWAIT) deliberately doesn't reap, and this handler goes straight to raise — so after a pytest-timeout the child is a zombie with an open pipe fd and no Popen.wait() ever called on it. It does get cleaned up eventually: Popen.__del__ sees returncode is None, emits ResourceWarning: subprocess N is still running, and appends to subprocess._active, which the next Popen construction reaps. So it self-heals at the next _run_capturing, and the pid being held is the safe direction, not the dangerous one.
Still, since the whole point of the WNOWAIT change was ordering the kill before the reap, it reads cleaner to complete that ordering here rather than leave it to the GC:
except BaseException:
# Interrupted (most likely pytest-timeout) while the command runs: its own process group is
# not swept up with pytest's, so take the descendants down rather than leak them.
_kill_process_group()
with contextlib.suppress(Exception):
process.wait(timeout=_KILLED_PIPE_TIMEOUT_S) # reap only after the group kill
raiseNon-blocking — the current code is correct, just noisier than it needs to be.
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Full coverage again: all 5 changed files (+134/-9). No modelopt/ code is touched, so mode/state, export, and public-API categories don't apply.
The IMPORTANT from last round is genuinely closed
I re-derived the WNOWAIT argument rather than taking it on trust, and it holds structurally:
os.waitid(P_PID, pid, WEXITED | WNOWAIT)observes the exit but leaves the child in a waitable state, so it stays a zombie and the kernel cannot free its pid.- Because
start_new_session=Truemakes the child its own group leader,pgid == pid; a pid that can't be freed can't be reissued as a new group leader, sokillpg(pgid, SIGKILL)up to 35 s later cannot land on an unrelated group. That's the recycle window closed at the source, not narrowed. - The group also still exists at kill time — the zombie leader is a member — so
killpgreturns success rather thanESRCH, and the signal reaches exactly the survivors that were holding the pipe. process.wait()at L127 is the only reap, and it runs strictly after both kill sites. Ordering is right.- The wait is not spuriously interruptible: CPython's
os.waitidcarries the PEP 475EINTRretry loop, so an incidental signal resumes the wait instead of falling through to the kill. A raising handler (pytest-timeout'sSIGALRM→Failed, orKeyboardInterrupt) still propagates, which is what theexcept BaseExceptionis there for.
The other three prior findings also check out: the grace period is no longer double-spent (one _ORPHAN_PIPE_TIMEOUT_S join, then a bounded _KILLED_PIPE_TIMEOUT_S post-kill drain), the HF revision is pinned to a commit SHA, and the 166 MB tarball is dropped via mktemp + EXIT trap with an explicit rm -f on the success path. Under the script's set -e, a failing tar/mv exits through the trap, so the temp file is removed on both paths. I re-grepped the tree: zero references to people.eecs.berkeley.edu remain.
The two SUGGESTIONs
os.waitidmakes the helper hard-fail on Windows, which renders theos.name != "posix"fallback you just added in_kill_process_groupunreachable — theAttributeErroris aBaseException, so it gets caught, the healthy child is killed, and the error re-raises. No caller hits this today (the Windows job runstests/unit, and the new test is behindskip_on_windows), so it's a code-honesty issue: either gate the wait the same way the kill is gated, or drop the fallback and declare the helper POSIX-only.- The escape path never reaps — a new consequence of
WNOWAIT, sincesubprocess.runused to reap on every path. It self-heals (Popen.__del__→subprocess._active→ reaped by the nextPopen) and the pid being held is the safe direction, so this is tidiness, not a leak that matters.
One minor note not worth an inline: the script pins resolve/c30699e8.../data.tar while both READMEs point at resolve/main/data.tar. If the pin exists because main could move or drop the tarball, the docs will rot on a different schedule than the script.
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Bash was sandboxed in this run, so unlike the previous round I could not execute the new unit test or issue a HEAD request against the pinned URL — both of those remain CI's to confirm. The review above is static reasoning over the diff plus greps. The test logic itself reads correctly: the monkeypatched _ORPHAN_PIPE_TIMEOUT_S is read through the module global at call time so the patch takes effect, non-interactive bash -c leaves sleep 60 & in the shell's own pgid so the group kill reaches it, and the worst-case wall time (~1 s + 5 s) sits well inside the 30 s assertion.
Risk: low. Test infrastructure and example scripts only; _run_capturing keeps its (returncode, output) contract, and the two remaining items are non-blocking.
os.waitid is POSIX-only, so the non-POSIX branch never reached the fallback in _kill_process_group. WNOWAIT also leaves the child waitable, so the interrupt path has to reap it after killing the group rather than leaving a zombie. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Keval Morabia <28916987+kevalmorabia97@users.noreply.github.com>
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Re-review of PR #2270 (5 files, +139/-9). Verified the current state of both source files against the previous rounds' findings; everything blocking is closed.
Previously-raised items, all resolved:
- pgid recycling before the group kill (critical) — closed structurally:
os.waitid(P_PID, pid, WEXITED | WNOWAIT)observes the exit without reaping, so the pid (== pgid, sincestart_new_session=Truemakes the child its own group leader) stays allocated untilprocess.wait()runs after both kill sites. Ordering in the file is correct — the only reap is at the end (or in theexcept BaseExceptionhandler, after_kill_process_group()). - Dead Berkeley MMLU host — all three references replaced; the script now uses a revision-pinned HF URL and the Windows README correctly uses
curl.exe -L(barecurlis anInvoke-WebRequestalias in PowerShell 5.1). wget --timeout=20on a 166 MB transfer — now--connect-timeout=20 --read-timeout=60 --tries=3 -c, withmktemp+EXITtrap and an explicitrm -f/trap - EXITon the success path so the tarball isn't held for the rest of the eval.- Reader-thread teardown noise —
_drainwraps the read loop incontextlib.suppress(ValueError). - Double-spent grace period — split into
_ORPHAN_PIPE_TIMEOUT_S = 30and a bounded post-kill_KILLED_PIPE_TIMEOUT_S = 5, with a comment saying what each covers. - Missing test —
tests/unit/test_example_run_command.pyreproduces the exact regression (survivor inherits the pipe, launcher SIGKILLs itself) and now also asserts the descendant is actually killed, so removing_kill_process_group()fails the test. Gated on the repo'sskip_on_windowsfixture (confirmed it exists intests/conftest.py);tests/unithas a 60 s default cap and the test's worst case is ~6 s. The monkeypatched_ORPHAN_PIPE_TIMEOUT_Sis read as a module global at call time, so the patch takes effect. - Windows portability —
_kill_process_groupand the wait both branch onos.name, so the non-POSIX path no longer raisesAttributeError.
Licensing: the new test file carries the project's standard Apache-2.0 header matching LICENSE_HEADER (year differs, which the insert-license hook allows) — no licensing concern.
Remaining nits, non-blocking and fine to leave: the script pins a commit SHA while both READMEs still point at resolve/main/data.tar (they can rot on different schedules); examples/llm_eval/README.md still uses bare wget; the test's < 30 s wall-clock bound is loose relative to the 1 s patched grace period and the survivor cleanup isn't in a finally, so a failing assertion leaks a sleep 60. process.wait() is still unbounded by design — the author's rationale (no non-arbitrary value across callers, pytest-timeout bounds the wall clock, and the missing piece was cleanup, now handled by the except BaseException killpg) is reasonable.
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The script pinned a commit while both READMEs still pointed at main, so they could rot apart; give llm_eval the same bounded retries too. In the test, drop the loose 30s bound and kill the survivor from a finally so a failing assertion does not leak a sleep. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Keval Morabia <28916987+kevalmorabia97@users.noreply.github.com>
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Re-review of PR #2270 (5 files, +144/-9). The only change since the last round is the test hardening in tests/unit/test_example_run_command.py, and it closes the last outstanding finding.
Previously-raised items, verified resolved in the current tree:
- pgid recycling before the group kill — closed structurally:
os.waitid(P_PID, pid, WEXITED | WNOWAIT)observes the exit without reaping, and the only reap (process.wait()) runs strictly after both_kill_process_group()call sites, so the pid (== pgid understart_new_session=True) stays allocated across the whole window. The non-POSIX branch now gates both the wait and the kill onos.name, so the fallback is reachable rather than pre-empted byAttributeError. - Dead Berkeley MMLU host — no references remain; the script and both READMEs now point at the same revision-pinned HF URL (
resolve/c30699e8…/data.tar), and the Windows README correctly usescurl.exe -L(barecurlis anInvoke-WebRequestalias in PowerShell 5.1). --timeout=20as a read timeout on a 166 MB transfer — now--connect-timeout=20 --read-timeout=60 --tries=3 -c, withmktemp+EXITtrap, an explicit failure guard so a partial archive never reachestar, andrm -f/trap - EXITon the success path. Underset -eevery exit path routes through the trap.- Reader-thread teardown noise / double-spent grace period —
_drainsuppressesValueError; the post-kill drain has its own_KILLED_PIPE_TIMEOUT_S = 5with a comment explaining each bound. - Test coverage — the new test reproduces the exact regression (survivor inherits the pipe, launcher SIGKILLs itself), and now also asserts the descendant is actually killed, so removing
_kill_process_group()fails it. The survivor PID is read before the assertions and cleanup runs infinally. Gated onskip_on_windows(confirmed present intests/conftest.py); worst case ~6 s against the 60 stests/unitdefault cap.
Licensing: the new test file carries the project's standard Apache-2.0 header matching LICENSE_HEADER (year differs, which the insert-license hook allows). No licensing concern.
Nudging rather than approving on two small owner calls:
- The new survivor-liveness loop uses
os.kill(survivor, 0), which also succeeds for an un-reaped zombie. The orphanedsleep 60is reparented when its bash parent dies, so on a runner whose PID 1 doesn't reap adopted children the pid stays visible after the SIGKILL and the loop wouldpytest.fail("survivor … outlived _run_capturing")spuriously. Checking the process state (/proc/<pid>/statfield 3 ==Z) or accepting a zombie as "terminated" would make the assertion robust across container setups. Also,int(pid_file.read_text())runs before thereturncode/output assertions, so if the launcher never got as far as writing the pid the test fails with aFileNotFoundError/ValueErrorinstead of the informative assertion. - 💬 Author replied on the unbounded
process.wait(): no non-arbitrary timeout value exists across callers, pytest-timeout already bounds the wall clock, and the missing piece was cleanup — now handled by theexcept BaseExceptionkillpg — reasonable, and worth a look only because a live-but-hung child still consumes the caller's whole budget; the author offered an opt-intimeout=parameter if you'd prefer it.
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tests/examples/llm_eval/test_llm_eval.py::test_qwen3_eval_fp8has been failing withFailed: Timeout (>900.0s) from pytest-timeouton unrelated branches (runs 33027056246 and the one forad83a428, while the 2026-08-24 nightly passed). It is not the test being slow — it is the harness deadlocking, and the deadlock also destroys the diagnostics that would explain the underlying kill.Mechanism. The traceback shows
self = <Popen: returncode: -9 args: ['scripts/huggingface_example.sh', ...]>while still blocked instdout.read(). The launcher was SIGKILLed (nothing in pytest sends SIGKILL — pytest-timeout raises in the main thread, and the test'sfinallypkillsends SIGTERM and only runs afterwards — so an OOM kill is the likely source). Butsubprocess.run(..., stdout=PIPE, stderr=STDOUT)waits for EOF on the pipe, not for the process, and a surviving grandchild (the TRT-LLM serve/build worker) still holds the write end. EOF never arrives, so the test blocks until the 900 s alarm. Because the pipe is never drained, every line of child output is discarded, which is why the CI log says nothing about what the script was doing when it died.Reduced to a self-contained reproducer:
Fix.
_run_capturingnow starts the command in its own session, drains its output on a reader thread (so logs stream as they arrive instead of being buffered until the end), waits on the process, and kills the process group if descendants still hold the pipe after a 30 s grace period. A killed launcher now fails in seconds with its logs intact instead of silently burning the test's whole timeout.This does not fix whatever kills the script; it makes it diagnosable. Worth noting separately:
test_qwen3_eval_fp8took 749.10 s against its 900 s mark on the last green nightly, so it is fragile regardless and may want its work trimmed or its budget raised once the logs show where the time goes.Usage
Testing
Verified against the reproducer above and on the normal paths:
rc=-9in 3.5 s,'launcher output'capturedrc=0, stdout and stderr interleaved in orderrc=3, output capturedThe example-test suites that use this helper run through the same code path;
tests/examples/megatron_bridge(16 passed, 1 skipped) exercised it on nemo:26.08 in the branch this was extracted from.Before your PR is "Ready for review"
_run_capturingkeeps its(returncode, output)contract; only the buffering strategy changed.CONTRIBUTING.md: N/A🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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Update: the second half of the failure
With the streaming fix in place, the next CI run showed the actual cause, which the old code had been hiding. That run blocked in
process.wait()with<Popen: returncode: None ...>— child alive and working, not the previous dead-child pipe deadlock — and the now-visible output was:huggingface_example.shdownloads the MMLU tarball frompeople.eecs.berkeley.edu, that host stopped answering around 2026-08-25, and wget's default retry policy (20 tries, ~2 min per connect timeout) consumed the whole 900 s budget. Not runner-specific: the URL also times out from a developer workstation, and the nightlies flipped 08-24 ✅ / 08-25 ✅ / 08-26 ❌ / 08-27 ❌, matching the outage.So this PR now carries both halves of the same failure:
985809cc2d), and40f1d89154).The mirror is byte-for-byte the same dataset in the same layout the script already expects — verified by running the exact download/extract commands:
wget --timeout=20 --tries=3plus an explicit error means the next dataset-host outage fails in about a minute with "Could not download the MMLU test data. Set MMLU_DATA_PATH to a local copy." instead of silently eating a test's timeout. The same URL is updated inexamples/llm_eval/README.mdso a manual run does not hit the dead host either.