<p dir="auto">We're seeing it in pretty much all our serial and soak suites and is probably most common failure reason for our tests - including a number of P0 issues. Marking it as a P0 release blocker because of this, <a class="user-mention notranslate" data-hovercard-type="user" data-hovercard-url="/users/thockin/hovercard" data-octo-click="hovercard-link-click" data-octo-dimensions="link_type:self" href="https://github.com/thockin">@thockin</a> please remove if you think it shouldn't be one.</p>
<p dir="auto">cc @kubernetes/test-infra-maintainers <a class="user-mention notranslate" data-hovercard-type="user" data-hovercard-url="/users/derekwaynecarr/hovercard" data-octo-click="hovercard-link-click" data-octo-dimensions="link_type:self" href="https://github.com/derekwaynecarr">@derekwaynecarr</a> <a class="user-mention notranslate" data-hovercard-type="user" data-hovercard-url="/users/rmmh/hovercard" data-octo-click="hovercard-link-click" data-octo-dimensions="link_type:self" href="https://github.com/rmmh">@rmmh</a></p>
<p dir="auto">Quite a few tests flake with:</p>
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<p dir="auto">This seems to indicate:</p>
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<li>test should retry</li>
<li>that's a lot of flake on GKE</li>
</ul>
<p dir="auto">eg:  <a class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="Failed to load title" data-id="166209576" data-permission-text="Title is private" data-url="https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/29149" data-hovercard-type="issue" data-hovercard-url="/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/29149/hovercard" href="https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/29149">#29149</a>, <a class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="Failed to load title" data-id="169668085" data-permission-text="Title is private" data-url="https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/30156" data-hovercard-type="issue" data-hovercard-url="/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/30156/hovercard" href="https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/30156">#30156</a>, <a class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="Failed to load title" data-id="170381730" data-permission-text="Title is private" data-url="https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/30352" data-hovercard-type="issue" data-hovercard-url="/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/30352/hovercard?comment_id=243299162&amp;comment_type=issue_comment" href="https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/30352#issuecomment-243299162">#30352 (comment)</a>, pretty much all the failures in <a class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="Failed to load title" data-id="172579508" data-permission-text="Title is private" data-url="https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/31188" data-hovercard-type="issue" data-hovercard-url="/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/31188/hovercard" href="https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/31188">#31188</a>, <a class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="Failed to load title" data-id="173205462" data-permission-text="Title is private" data-url="https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/31429" data-hovercard-type="issue" data-hovercard-url="/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/31429/hovercard" href="https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/31429#issue-173205462">#31429 (comment)</a>, <a class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="Failed to load title" data-id="173576613" data-permission-text="Title is private" data-url="https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/31575" data-hovercard-type="issue" data-hovercard-url="/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/31575/hovercard" href="https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/31575">#31575</a>, <a class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="Failed to load title" data-id="173107321" data-permission-text="Title is private" data-url="https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/31408" data-hovercard-type="issue" data-hovercard-url="/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/31408/hovercard" href="https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/31408">#31408</a></p>