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WaitForLog timeout too short

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
php
Domain
testing

Research direction

Start by locating the PHP WaitForLog implementation and its default timeout. Compare the current 10-second behavior with the 60-second expectation described here, then verify that the default wait duration is updated without requiring the manual override shown in the issue.

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Description

Hi,

I think the 10s timeout for WaitForLog is too short.

I had to manually set it with:

->withWait(new WaitForLog( 'PostgreSQL init process complete; ready for start up.', false, 60_000 ))

In testcontainers-java it's 60s if I'm not mistaken.

See:
https://github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-java/blob/main/core/src/main/java/org/testcontainers/containers/wait/strategy/LogMessageWaitStrategy.java
And:
https://github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-java/blob/main/core/src/main/java/org/testcontainers/containers/wait/strategy/AbstractWaitStrategy.java

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