When I clone some repositories and enable fetching tags, the initial clone can take longer than the Jenkins timeout.

On my desk machine, a local fetch of the same repo with tags takes less than 10 seconds. If I remove --no-tags it takes ~7seconds, where as if I remove --no-tags on the Jenkins server, it no longer fails within 10 minutes.

I don't know what steps to take in order to profile this issue, but it definitely seems to be related to the number of tags fetched. Subsequent runs of the job do not fail with a timeout, as the actual fetch appears to have succeeded properly, and only fails in timeout when it starts displaying the tags.

I see output similar to the following:

ERROR: Timeout after 10 minutes
ERROR: Error cloning remote repo 'origin'
hudson.plugins.git.GitException: Command "git fetch --progress <URL> <REFSPEC>" returned status code 143:
stdout:
stderr:

<PROGRESS OUTPUT>
From <REMOTE NAME>:

• <LIST OF TAGS FETCHED>
• [new branch] 1.1.24_ORACLE

at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.launchCommandIn(CliGitAPIImpl.java:1924)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.launchCommandWithCredentials(CliGitAPIImpl.java:1643)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl.access$300(CliGitAPIImpl.java:71)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl$1.execute(CliGitAPIImpl.java:352)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.CliGitAPIImpl$2.execute(CliGitAPIImpl.java:559)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.RemoteGitImpl$CommandInvocationHandler$1.call(RemoteGitImpl.java:153)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.RemoteGitImpl$CommandInvocationHandler$1.call(RemoteGitImpl.java:146)
at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:153)
at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:50)
at hudson.remoting.Request$2.run(Request.java:336)
at hudson.remoting.InterceptingExecutorService$1.call(InterceptingExecutorService.java:68)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
at ......remote call to ND-CI-Fedora27-beta(Native Method)
at hudson.remoting.Channel.attachCallSiteStackTrace(Channel.java:1545)
at hudson.remoting.UserResponse.retrieve(UserRequest.java:253)
at hudson.remoting.Channel.call(Channel.java:830)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.RemoteGitImpl$CommandInvocationHandler.execute(RemoteGitImpl.java:146)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor523.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.RemoteGitImpl$CommandInvocationHandler.invoke(RemoteGitImpl.java:132)
at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy87.execute(Unknown Source)
at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.retrieveChanges(GitSCM.java:1070)
at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM.checkout(GitSCM.java:1110)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.steps.scm.SCMStep.checkout(SCMStep.java:113)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.steps.scm.SCMStep$StepExecutionImpl.run(SCMStep.java:85)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.steps.scm.SCMStep$StepExecutionImpl.run(SCMStep.java:75)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.steps.AbstractSynchronousNonBlockingStepExecution$1$1.call(AbstractSynchronousNonBlockingStepExecution.java:47)
at hudson.security.ACL.impersonate(ACL.java:260)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.steps.AbstractSynchronousNonBlockingStepExecution$1.run(AbstractSynchronousNonBlockingStepExecution.java:44)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)

Thus, the fetch appears to actually succeed, but it still manages to timeout after 10 minutes. Is it possible that the output of tags is simply too large and causing Java IO issues? It seems suspicious that the command launched and fully finished the fetch in plenty of time, but it still times out after 10 minutes??