Job timeout risk: spec/features/projects/blobs/edit_spec.rb ran much longer than expected

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Why was this issue created?

spec/features/projects/blobs/edit_spec.rb was reported to have:

1. exceeded Knapsack's expected runtime by at least 50%, and
2. been identified as a notable pipeline bottleneck and a job timeout risk

Suggested steps for investigation

1. To reproduce in CI by running test files in the same order, you can follow the steps listed here.
2. Identify if a specific test case is stalling the run time. Hint: You can search the job's log for Starting example group spec/features/projects/blobs/edit_spec.rb and view the elapsed time after each test case in the proceeding lines starting with [RSpecRunTime].
3. If the test file is large, consider refactoring it into multiple files to allow better test parallelization across runners.
4. If the run time cannot be fixed in time, consider quarantine the spec(s) to restore performance.

Run time details

• Reported from pipeline 2753260 created at 2024-05-09T07:41:15Z

Field	Value
Job URL	rspec-system-pg14-24-32
Job total RSpec suite run time	expected: 20 minutes 31.29 seconds, actual: 70 minutes 14.73 seconds
Spec file run time	expected: 1 minute 28.15 seconds, actual: 10 minutes 45.44 seconds
Spec file weight	15.31% of total suite run time

• Reported from pipeline 2753425 created at 2024-05-09T08:50:31Z

Field	Value
Job URL	rspec-system-pg14-24-32
Job total RSpec suite run time	expected: 20 minutes 31.29 seconds, actual: 71 minutes 40.15 seconds
Spec file run time	expected: 1 minute 28.15 seconds, actual: 10 minutes 54.54 seconds
Spec file weight	15.22% of total suite run time

• Reported from pipeline 4159232 created at 2025-05-15T08:51:40Z

Field	Value
Job URL	rspec-system-pg16-20-32
Job total RSpec suite run time	expected: 24 minutes 22.34 seconds, actual: 78 minutes 24.4 seconds
Spec file run time	expected: 2 minutes 3.17 seconds, actual: 20 minutes 8.58 seconds
Spec file weight	25.69% of total suite run time

• Reported from pipeline 4325486 created at 2025-07-01T19:23:55Z

Field	Value
Job URL	rspec-system-pg16-8-32
Job total RSpec suite run time	expected: 25 minutes 30.4 seconds, actual: 80 minutes 10.36 seconds
Spec file run time	expected: 1 minute 47.19 seconds, actual: 21 minutes 25.33 seconds
Spec file weight	26.72% of total suite run time

• Reported from pipeline 4441136 created at 2025-08-03T01:13:24Z

Field	Value
Job URL	rspec-system-pg16-no-gitaly-transactions-24-32
Job total RSpec suite run time	expected: 25 minutes 45.11 seconds, actual: 79 minutes 58.17 seconds
Spec file run time	expected: 1 minute 48.16 seconds, actual: 23 minutes 24.57 seconds
Spec file weight	29.27% of total suite run time

• Reported from pipeline 4487933 created at 2025-08-14T13:14:01Z

Field	Value
Job URL	rspec-system-pg16-30-32
Job total RSpec suite run time	expected: 25 minutes 51.76 seconds, actual: 79 minutes 8.96 seconds
Spec file run time	expected: 1 minute 54.65 seconds, actual: 18 minutes 18.48 seconds
Spec file weight	23.13% of total suite run time

• Reported from pipeline 4554310 created at 2025-09-01T10:42:43Z

Field	Value
Job URL	rspec-system-pg16-6-32
Job total RSpec suite run time	expected: 25 minutes 39.05 seconds, actual: 79 minutes 43.61 seconds
Spec file run time	expected: 1 minute 54.66 seconds, actual: 21 minutes 15.07 seconds
Spec file weight	26.66% of total suite run time

• Reported from pipeline 4714580 created at 2025-10-10T03:14:15Z

Field	Value
Job URL	rspec-system-pg16-5-32
Job total RSpec suite run time	expected: 27 minutes 15.08 seconds, actual: 77 minutes 15.78 seconds
Spec file run time	expected: 1 minute 49.72 seconds, actual: 21 minutes 23.44 seconds
Spec file weight	27.69% of total suite run time