# Testing on travis with \>10min initial compile time

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/testing-on-travis-with-10min-initial-compile-time/26721>\
**Category:** Tooling\
**Tags:** travis\
**Created:** [July 24, 2019, 7:47am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/testing-on-travis-with-10min-initial-compile-time/26721 "2019-07-24T07:47:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![thofma](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/thofma/32/1691_2.png) [@thofma](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/thofma)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2019, 1:36pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/testing-on-travis-with-10min-initial-compile-time/26721/8 "2019-07-24T13:36:49Z")

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An easy and quick fix is to do something similar to [Suggestion: forcing Travis CI to render verbose build output](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/suggestion-forcing-travis-ci-to-render-verbose-build-output/14716). Just replace the tail call with an echo statement, e.g., “while sleep 30; do echo “still alive”; done &”

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