time-limiting

I have timeout context manager that works perfectly with signals but it raises error in multithread mode because signals work only in main thread. def timeout_handler(signum, frame): raise TimeoutException() @contextmanager def timeout(seconds): old_handler = signal.signal(signal.SIGALRM, timeout_handler) signal.alarm(seconds) try: yield finally: signal.alarm(0) signal.signal(signal.SIGALRM, old_handler) I've seen decorator implementation of timeout but I don't know how to pass yield inside class derived from threading.Thread . My variant won't work. @contextmanager def timelimit(seconds):

Let's say i have repo which for each push (build) starts 4 jobs (diffrent environment/compilers etc.). There is time limit for builds - 50min. Is it counted as sum of times of all builds (like in left panel), or is it independant for each job? Example: 4 builds, each taking 20minute - will it timeout becouse it will be counter as 80min or will it be ok and count as 20min (time of longest job)? The Travis CI documentation is pretty clear about this. A build consists of one or many jobs. The limit is enforced for each job: There is no timeout for a build; a build will run as long as all the jobs

I've got a problem. I'm writing a benchmark and I have a function than is either done in 2 seconds or after ~5 minutes(depending on the input data). And I would like to stop that function if it's executed for more than 3 seconds... How can I do it? Thanks a lot! The best way would be that your function can check its execution time often enough to decide to stop it it takes too long. If this is not the case, then run the function in a separate thread. In your main thread start a 3 seconds timer. When timer elapses, kill the separate thread using Thread.Abort() (of course unless the function is