While looking at AppVeyor history, I saw two builds which seem like interrupted in the middle of the test

3.6:
https://ci.appveyor.com/project/python/cpython/build/3.6build16876/job/t9nyt59wkwcn68nk

...
0:04:32 [312/407] test_genexps passed -- running: test_largefile (2 min 21 sec), test_mmap (4 min 30 sec)
0:04:32 [313/407] test_weakset passed -- running: test_largefile (2 min 21 sec), test_mmap (4 min 30 sec)
0:04:32 [314/407] test_fractions passed -- running: test_largefile (2 min 21 sec), test_mmap (4 min 31 sec)

3.8:
https://ci.appveyor.com/project/python/cpython/build/3.8build16878

...
0:06:07 [290/416] test_frame passed -- running: test_io (4 min 1 sec), test_mmap (5 min 45 sec)
0:06:09 [291/416] test_codecmaps_cn passed -- running: test_io (4 min 3 sec), test_mmap (5 min 47 sec)
fetching http://www.pythontest.net/unicode/gb-18030-2000.xml ...
	fetching http://www.pythontest.net/unicode/EUC-CN.TXT ...
	fetching http://www.pythontest.net/unicode/CP936.TXT ...


Terry Reedy also noticed the issue:
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-committers/2018-June/005527.html


https://appveyor.statuspage.io/ says that all services are operational.

See also PR 7365" href="issue33765">bpo-33765: "AppVeyor didn't start on my PR 7365".

Clicking on the Messages tab:

https://ci.appveyor.com/project/python/cpython/build/3.8build16878/messages

"Build exceeded allowed resource quotas. Fix your build to consume less resources or contact AppVeyor support to request quotas increase."

Looks like this was another case of test_mmap on Windows taking a long time.  If the change has now been made to disable tests with "largefile" resources, test_mmap should no longer be a hangup.

We discussed this earlier: https://bugs.python.org/issue33355#msg317587

> Looks like this was another case of test_mmap on Windows taking a long time.

Ah yes, bpo-33355.

> We discussed this earlier: https://bugs.python.org/issue33355#msg317587

At that time, I didn't know that AppVeyor was impacted. In my mind, the bug was specific to buildbots on slow cloud providers (slow cloud flavors).

New changeset 47a6c79f0986ce9a84d0efc3c565b28255042911 by Ned Deily (Zachary Ware) in branch 'master':
bpo-33764: Appveyor fixes (GH-7364)
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/47a6c79f0986ce9a84d0efc3c565b28255042911

New changeset 37343a2db8763a114e63ac63a249603b1df2554d by Ned Deily (Miss Islington (bot)) in branch '3.7':
bpo-33764: Appveyor fixes (GH-7364) (GH-7369)
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/37343a2db8763a114e63ac63a249603b1df2554d

Steve, what do you think about a similar change to the VSTS Windows CI builds to disable the "longfile" resource for the tests?  test_mmap seems to take a long time.

New changeset b8f2fb52007f6d0d9eacfb459a9e813678f55f7e by Ned Deily in branch '3.6':
bpo-33764: Appveyor fixes (GH-7364) (GH-7379)
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/b8f2fb52007f6d0d9eacfb459a9e813678f55f7e

New changeset 1cbdbf35db16f2b06c0974b711c4d8b840c8a264 by Ned Deily in branch '2.7':
bpo-33764: Appveyor fixes (GH-7364) (GH-7380)
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/1cbdbf35db16f2b06c0974b711c4d8b840c8a264

I asked AppVeyor to increase our quotas:
https://help.appveyor.com/discussions/problems/14532-cpython-exceeded-allowed-resource-quotas-what-are-these-quotas-can-them-be-increased

Are we sure we haven't actually regressed something here and it's actually taking more resources? I can't tell from this discussion if it's memory CPU, disk or time that we're hitting problems.

I'll have to look at the VSTS build history to see whether it needs to be disabled there too. I haven't been watching much over the last week.

Steve Dower: "Are we sure we haven't actually regressed something here and it's actually taking more resources? (...)"

According to AppVeyor support, there was an issue on their side:

"Regarding disk quota -- we are extremely sorry. This was not your fault, but side effect of build worker image update. You should be good now."

https://help.appveyor.com/discussions/problems/14532-cpython-exceeded-allowed-resource-quotas-what-are-these-quotas-can-them-be-increased

Moreover, AppVeyor donated us a second parallel job!

"We decided to donate additional parallel job to the python account. Let us know how it goes."

I close the issue. AppVeyor is back!