Creating session takes over 5 minutes now with Xcode 9

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Hi,
App under test recently added support for iOS 11. App now builds using Xcode 9 and I’ve updated Appium to 1.7.1. When running the test against a simulator, for some reason it takes much longer to run now. From looking at the server log, it appears that POST /session takes over 5 minutes long. Here’s a portion of the server log:

[debug] [XCUITest] WebDriverAgent running on ip '192.168.29.140'
[debug] [XCUITest] WebDriverAgent successfully started after 18043ms
[debug] [BaseDriver] Event 'wdaSessionAttempted' logged at 1506813380923 (16:16:20 GMT-0700 (PDT))
[debug] [XCUITest] Sending createSession command to WDA
[debug] [JSONWP Proxy] Proxying [POST /session] to [POST http://localhost:8100/session] with body: {"desiredCapabilities":{"bundleId":"com.acorns.AcornsSTG","arguments":[],"environment":{},"shouldWaitForQuiescence":true,"shouldUseTestManagerForVisibilityDetection":false,"maxTypingFrequency":60,"shouldUseSingletonTestManager":true}}
[debug] [JSONWP Proxy] Got response with status 200: {"value":{"sessionId":"8247C4CB-20CE-4797-8644-B08B7B55436C","capabilities":{"device":"iphone","browserName":null,"sdkVersion":"10.3.1","CFBundleIdentifier":null}},"sessionId":"8247C4CB-20CE-4797-8644-B08B7B55436C","status":0}
[debug] [BaseDriver] Event 'wdaSessionStarted' logged at 1506813702439 (16:21:42 GMT-0700 (PDT))

Please advise.

Thanks,
Alvin

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Hi, I have the same problem. Do you have any solution about that??

Logs:

[debug] [BaseDriver] Event 'wdaSessionAttempted' logged at 1507038708604 (08:51:48 GMT-0500 (-05))
[debug] [XCUITest] Sending createSession command to WDA
[debug] [JSONWP Proxy] Proxying [GET /status] to [GET http://localhost:8100/status] with no body
[debug] [JSONWP Proxy] Got response with status 200: "{\n  \"value\" : {\n    \"state\" : \"success\",\n    \"os\" : {\n      \"name\" : \"iOS\",\n      \"version\" : \"10.3.1\"\n    },\n    \"ios\" : {\n      \"simulatorVersion\" : \"10.3.1\",\n      \"ip\" : \"10.130.10.44\"\n    },\n    \"build\" : {\n      \"time\" : \"Oct  3 2017 08:33:20\"\n    }\n  },\n  \"sessionId\" : \"D7DF7FB8-CD87-4B19-BF36-90D798800BDD\",\n  \"status\" : 0\n}"
[debug] [JSONWP Proxy] Proxying [POST /session] to [POST http://localhost:8100/session] with body: {"desiredCapabilities":{"bundleId":"com.xxx.xxxxx.xxx","arguments":[],"environment":{},"shouldWaitForQuiescence":true,"shouldUseTestManagerForVisibilityDetection":false,"maxTypingFrequency":60,"shouldUseSingletonTestManager":true}}
[debug] [JSONWP Proxy] Got response with status 200: {"value":{"sessionId":"190724E3-4D83-4BF2-8859-2C96BB794216","capabilities":{"device":"iphone","browserName":null,"sdkVersion":"10.3.1","CFBundleIdentifier":null}},"sessionId":"190724E3-4D83-4BF2-8859-2C96BB794216","status":0}
[debug] [BaseDriver] Event 'wdaSessionStarted' logged at 1507039030724 (08:57:10 GMT-0500 (-05))

Regards

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how about real devices? I’m testing with 1.7.0 on ios11 real devices and not seeing that, usually takes 12 or 15 seconds or thereabouts for me

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Looking more closely at the server logs, the next line is:
[debug] [XCUITest] Cannot find a match for DerivedData folder path from lsof. Trying to access logs
Apparently it’s been reported here: https://github.com/appium/appium/issues/9273. I’ve tried following the solutions suggested but still have the problem. Mauricio, perhaps you or someone else can try.

Ken, I’ve never tried on a real device locally, although running the test against a real device on TestObject seemed fine.

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My problem is solved by adding this capability:
waitForQuiescence = false

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waitForQuiescence = false solved my problem with speed too. Ty @alvy54

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Thank you @alvy54. It works for me