Timeout exceeded: try increasing it by passing --timeout option

[alita1991]

Hi,

I have intermittent timeout issues while running golangci-lint in a CI/CD pipeline, and I'm looking for a solution to address it.

Image
golangci-lint:v1.51.1-alpine

Command
golangci-lint run --timeout 5m --verbose

Log file

level=info msg="[config_reader] Config search paths: [./ /builds/coder-platform/lib-coder-go /builds/coder-platform /builds / /root]"
[27](https://git.vwx.spirent.com/indigo-platform/lib-indigoctl-go/-/jobs/288700#L27)level=info msg="[config_reader] Used config file .golangci.yml"
[28](https://git.vwx.spirent.com/indigo-platform/lib-indigoctl-go/-/jobs/288700#L28)level=info msg="[lintersdb] Active 14 linters: [errcheck gocritic gocyclo gofmt gosimple govet ineffassign staticcheck stylecheck thelper typecheck unparam unused whitespace]"
[29](https://git.vwx.spirent.com/indigo-platform/lib-indigoctl-go/-/jobs/288700#L29)level=info msg="[loader] Go packages loading at mode 575 (types_sizes|compiled_files|deps|files|imports|name|exports_file) took 4m7.286819353s"
[30](https://git.vwx.spirent.com/indigo-platform/lib-indigoctl-go/-/jobs/288700#L30)level=info msg="[runner/filename_unadjuster] Pre-built 0 adjustments in 8.412936ms"
[31](https://git.vwx.spirent.com/indigo-platform/lib-indigoctl-go/-/jobs/288700#L31)level=info msg="Memory: 3002 samples, avg is 88.8MB, max is 660.0MB"
[32](https://git.vwx.spirent.com/indigo-platform/lib-indigoctl-go/-/jobs/288700#L32)level=info msg="Execution took 5m0.035606149s"
[33](https://git.vwx.spirent.com/indigo-platform/lib-indigoctl-go/-/jobs/288700#L33)level=info msg="[linters_context/goanalysis] analyzers took 3m40.107801481s with top 10 stages: buildir: 2m58.786667461s, nilness: 5.781479055s, buildssa: 5.391092792s, ctrlflow: 4.913690066s, fact_deprecated: 4.610432749s, fact_purity: 4.492219529s, printf: 4.3574425[34](https://git.vwx.spirent.com/indigo-platform/lib-indigoctl-go/-/jobs/288700#L34)s, inspect: 3.93605581s, SA5012: 2.78[35](https://git.vwx.spirent.com/indigo-platform/lib-indigoctl-go/-/jobs/288700#L35)61572s, typedness: 2.773405192s"
34level=info msg="[runner] Issues before processing: 44, after processing: 0"
35level=info msg="[runner] Processors filtering stat (out/in): filename_unadjuster: 44/44, path_prettifier: 44/44, skip_files: 44/44, identifier_marker: 44/44, cgo: 44/44, exclude: 44/44, nolint: 0/1, skip_dirs: 44/44, autogenerated_exclude: 44/44, exclude-rules: 1/44"
[36](https://git.vwx.spirent.com/indigo-platform/lib-indigoctl-go/-/jobs/288700#L36)level=info msg="[runner] processing took 15.977503ms with stages: exclude-rules: 12.782781ms, identifier_marker: 1.409134ms, path_prettifier: 588.225µs, autogenerated_exclude: 534.201µs, nolint: [37](https://git.vwx.spirent.com/indigo-platform/lib-indigoctl-go/-/jobs/288700#L37)6.867µs, skip_dirs: 267.015µs, cgo: 9.044µs, filename_unadjuster: 4.796µs, max_same_issues: 1.232µs, uniq_by_line: 694ns, source_code: 464ns, skip_files: 428ns, max_from_linter: 425ns, severity-rules: 394ns, exclude: [38](https://git.vwx.spirent.com/indigo-platform/lib-indigoctl-go/-/jobs/288700#L38)9ns, diff: 372ns, sort_results: 359ns, path_shortener: 283ns, path_prefixer: 203ns, max_per_file_from_linter: 197ns"
37level=info msg="[runner] linters took 2m3.30888723s with stages: goanalysis_metalinter: 2m3.292645813s"
38level=info msg="File cache stats: 0 entries of total size 0B"
[39](https://git.vwx.spirent.com/indigo-platform/lib-indigoctl-go/-/jobs/288700#L39)level=error msg="Timeout exceeded: try increasing it by passing --timeout option"

Is there a way to improve the linter execution time? (Like go mod download)

[Antonboom]

@alita1991, hi!

What version of Go are you using?
1.20 is preferable for golangci-lint >= 1.51

Try to setup cache between jobs

level=info msg="File cache stats: 0 entries of total size 0B"

[alita1991]

Hi @Antonboom,

1. I'm using golangci/golangci-lint:v1.51 docker image from dockerhub
2. Lint is my first CI/CD job (no cache available), should I run "go mod download" before running the lint command to avoid the timeout issue?

Thanks

[Antonboom]

should I run "go mod download"

No, it has nothing to do with linter.

---

1. Try to set implicitly skip-cache: false (https://github.com/golangci/golangci-lint-action#how-to-use)
2. Use the last version of actions
3. Set the specific version of Go

Example:

jobs:
  lint:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/setup-go@v3
        with:
          go-version: '1.20'
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - uses: golangci/golangci-lint-action@v3
        with:
          version: v1.51.2
          args: --timeout=5m
          skip-cache: false

---

P.S. I checked CI-time of one of my big-size projects which locally linted in seconds:

succeeded 5 days ago in 2m 36s

And it seems it's a standard situation.

I think you should redirect your questions in golangci-lint-action repo.