Job timeout risk: spec/finders/merge_requests_finder_spec.rb ran much longer than expected

Why was this issue created?

spec/finders/merge_requests_finder_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/finders/merge_requests_finder_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 2994634 created at 2024-07-11T17:25:02Z

Field	Value
Job URL	rspec-unit-pg14-12-32
Job total RSpec suite run time	expected: 40 minutes 48.77 seconds, actual: 79 minutes 52.05 seconds
Spec file run time	expected: 7 minutes 12.21 seconds, actual: 14 minutes 55.66 seconds
Spec file weight	18.69% of total suite run time

• Reported from pipeline 3160773 created at 2024-08-31T01:17:47Z

Field	Value
Job URL	rspec-unit-pg14-single-db-ci-connection-17-44
Job total RSpec suite run time	expected: 45 minutes 7.25 seconds, actual: 72 minutes 59.0 seconds
Spec file run time	expected: 7 minutes 52.03 seconds, actual: 13 minutes 4.82 seconds
Spec file weight	17.92% of total suite run time

• Reported from pipeline 4124296 created at 2025-05-07T01:15:59Z

Field	Value
Job URL	rspec-unit-pg16-single-redis-6-44
Job total RSpec suite run time	expected: 26 minutes 58.2 seconds, actual: 71 minutes 38.42 seconds
Spec file run time	expected: 8 minutes 51.65 seconds, actual: 18 minutes 38.36 seconds
Spec file weight	26.02% of total suite run time

• Reported from pipeline 4208942 created at 2025-05-29T01:16:04Z

Field	Value
Job URL	rspec-unit-pg16-single-db-7-44
Job total RSpec suite run time	expected: 27 minutes 29.74 seconds, actual: 79 minutes 47.84 seconds
Spec file run time	expected: 8 minutes 7.05 seconds, actual: 17 minutes 14.84 seconds
Spec file weight	21.61% of total suite run time

• Reported from pipeline 4731001 created at 2025-10-14T19:46:10Z

Field	Value
Job URL	rspec-unit-pg16-7-44
Job total RSpec suite run time	expected: 33 minutes 5.37 seconds, actual: 79 minutes 22.78 seconds
Spec file run time	expected: 9 minutes 15.76 seconds, actual: 30 minutes 43.41 seconds
Spec file weight	38.7% of total suite run time