From a0f8482f3e9b07e37c3f1b6fa09683b448810955 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Suhas Daftuar <sdaftuar@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 11:08:08 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] [qa] Split up slow RPC calls to avoid pruning test timeouts

---
 qa/rpc-tests/pruning.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/qa/rpc-tests/pruning.py b/qa/rpc-tests/pruning.py
index 7cbe69c29..287dbc776 100755
--- a/qa/rpc-tests/pruning.py
+++ b/qa/rpc-tests/pruning.py
@@ -157,7 +157,10 @@ class PruneTest(BitcoinTestFramework):
         print("Usage possibly still high bc of stale blocks in block files:", calc_usage(self.prunedir))
 
         print("Mine 220 more blocks so we have requisite history (some blocks will be big and cause pruning of previous chain)")
-        self.nodes[0].generate(220) #node 0 has many large tx's in its mempool from the disconnects
+        for i in range(22):
+            # This can be slow, so do this in multiple RPC calls to avoid
+            # RPC timeouts.
+            self.nodes[0].generate(10) #node 0 has many large tx's in its mempool from the disconnects
         sync_blocks(self.nodes[0:3], timeout=300)
 
         usage = calc_usage(self.prunedir)