pytest-rerunfailures slows down pytest-xdist testing

[mtelka]

I tried to run tests for pytest-xdist with pytest-rerunfailures installed and disabled using -p no:rerunfailures set in PYTEST_ADDOPTS environment variable. I noticed that with this setup the pytest-xdist tests takes very long time (over one hour on my testing machine) and CPU is heavily utilized. Without the pytest-rerunfailures installed the pytest-xdist testing completes in about 3 minutes on my machine.

Version info:

• pytest-rerunfailures 12.0
• pytest-xdist 3.4.0
• pytest 7.4.3
• Python 3.9.16

[mtelka]

Actually, the testing takes far more than one hour because it looks like it exponentially slows down. After ca 20 minutes the pytest-xdist testing progress was at about 30%, after 50 minutes it was at 40%. After that I had to stop the test run.

[icemac]

Support for xdist was added in #53 (6 years ago) and improved in several following PRs. There have not yet been any issues reported. Thus I have no idea what could be the problem there.

[mtelka]

Since the pytest-rerunfailures is not needed to test pytest-xdist then we should simply do not install (or load) it while testing pytest-xdist.