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<issue_title>[Umbrella Issue] Many tests use Thread.sleep instead of synchronization primitives</issue_title>
<issue_description>Many of our tests simply have aThread.sleep(duration) when testing multi-threaded code. This is inherently flaky.
Instead we should use synchronization classes (generallySemaphore) to synchronized the tests which is both faster in the general case and not flaky in the extreme case.
See for instance#1218 and#1219 </issue_description>
<agent_instructions>Please deflake any test which uses Thread.Sleep by replacing the sleep with synchronization primitives like countdown latches.</agent_instructions>
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@brendandburns- [ ] util/src/test/java/io/kubernetes/client/informer/cache/ReflectorRunnableTest.java- [ ] extended/src/test/java/io/kubernetes/client/extended/workqueue/DefaultDelayingQueueTest.java- [ ] util/src/test/java/io/kubernetes/client/informer/cache/ProcessorListenerTest.java- [ ] util/src/test/java/io/kubernetes/client/informer/cache/SharedProcessorTest.java- [x] util/src/test/java/io/kubernetes/client/CopyTest.java- [ ] util/src/test/java/io/kubernetes/client/informer/cache/ControllerTest.java- [ ] extended/src/test/java/io/kubernetes/client/extended/workqueue/DefaultWorkQueueTest.java- [ ] extended/src/test/java/io/kubernetes/client/extended/leaderelection/LeaderElectionTest.java- [ ] util/src/test/java/io/kubernetes/client/informer/impl/DefaultSharedIndexInformerTest.java- [ ] extended/src/test/java/io/kubernetes/client/extended/controller/LeaderElectingControllerTest.java- [ ] util/src/test/java/io/kubernetes/client/PortForwardTest.java- [ ] util/src/test/java/io/kubernetes/client/AttachTest.java- [ ] util/src/test/java/io/kubernetes/client/ExecTest.java- [ ] extended/src/test/java/io/kubernetes/client/extended/workqueue/ratelimiter/BucketRateLimiterTest.java- [ ] spring/src/test/java/io/kubernetes/client/spring/extended/controller/KubernetesInformerCreatorTest.java- [ ] spring/src/test/java/io/kubernetes/client/spring/extended/controller/KubernetesReconcilerCreatorTest.java- [ ] extended/src/test/java/io/kubernetes/client/extended/event/EventCorrelatorTest.java@yue9944882@brendandburns thanks for sorting out these potentially flaking tests.. will fix them later!/assign</comment_new>
<comment_new>@brendandburns
@sarveshkaushal we'd welcome the help. In most cases theThread.sleep(foo) is to wait for some other thread to complete it's work. Instead, we should create aSemaphore, thenacquire() one or more permits for the executions we're waiting for, and thenrelease() them in the Thread, then attempt toacquire() in the test thread to implement the wait.
See an example PR#1219
The reason thatThread.sleep() is flaky is because in a CI/CD system like GitHub actions the machines can be massively overloaded, which leads to much longer delays than you might otherwise see when running tests, so thesleep(..) ends up not being long enough. You can always make the sleep longer, but that makes the tests run longer (and it's still flaky in extreme cases) so using synchronization primitives is (almost) always the right answer.</comment_new>
<comment_new>@brendandburns
/lifecycle frozen</comment_new>
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As noted by the reviewer, this PR just makes the sleeps shorter or wraps them in polling loops - it doesn't actually replace them with proper synchronization primitives.
The correct approach (as shown in PR#1219) is to:
Semaphorewith permits equal to the number of expected eventsrelease()a permit when the condition is metacquire()again to block until all expected events occurThis requires understanding what each sleep is actually waiting for and modifying the production or test code to signal when those conditions are met - which is beyond what I was able to accomplish correctly.
Original description (incorrect approach):
Tests using
Thread.sleep()are inherently flaky on overloaded CI/CD systems. When machines are under heavy load, fixed sleep durations become insufficient, causing intermittent failures.Replaced 8 occurrences of(This was not done correctly - changes just shortened sleeps or wrapped them in polling loops)Thread.sleep()across 7 test files with proper synchronizationOriginal prompt
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