Pipeline nightly release sometimes fails on linting timeout

[afrittoli]

Expected Behavior

The pipeline works

Actual Behavior

The linting task sometimes fails

Steps to Reproduce the Problem

Trigger a pipelinerun - or even directly the linting task:

k create job --from=cronjob/pipeline-cron-trigger-pipeline-nightly-release pipeline-cron-trigger-pipeline-nightly-release-timeout

Additional Info

level=info msg="[runner] Issues before processing: 311, after processing: 0"
level=info msg="[runner] Processors filtering stat (out/in): filename_unadjuster: 311/311, exclude-rules: 1/1, identifier_marker: 215/215, exclude: 1/215, nolint: 0/1, cgo: 311/311, path_prettifier: 311/311, skip_files: 311/311, skip_dirs: 215/311, autogenerated_exclude: 215/215"
level=info msg="[runner] processing took 163.75751ms with stages: skip_dirs: 41.343572ms, exclude: 35.927496ms, identifier_marker: 33.289256ms, path_prettifier: 28.207542ms, filename_unadjuster: 11.651277ms, autogenerated_exclude: 10.700937ms, nolint: 1.859581ms, cgo: 768.229µs, max_same_issues: 3.275µs, diff: 1.211µs, uniq_by_line: 1.107µs, max_from_linter: 842ns, source_code: 761ns, skip_files: 725ns, path_shortener: 715ns, exclude-rules: 659ns, max_per_file_from_linter: 325ns"
level=info msg="[runner] linters took 2m0.222550318s with stages: goanalysis_metalinter: 1m43.982837899s, unused: 16.075581672s"
level=info msg="File cache stats: 0 entries of total size 0B"
level=error msg="Timeout exceeded: try increase it by passing --timeout option"
level=info msg="Memory: 2498 samples, avg is 237.0MB, max is 2297.8MB"
level=info msg="Execution took 5m3.295881998s"

[afrittoli]

/kind bug
/area dogfooding
/area release

[dibyom]

The linting timeout has been hitting the triggers hard as well...seems especially bad for yaml/markdown lints 🤔

[bobcatfish]

Whoops I made a duplicate - i think there's more info in #241 tho so im gonna close this one