Job timeout risk: spec/features/projects/files/user_browses_files_spec.rb ran much longer than expected

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Why was this issue created?

spec/features/projects/files/user_browses_files_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/features/projects/files/user_browses_files_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 4091099 created at 2025-04-28T17:10:44Z

Field	Value
Job URL	rspec-system-pg16-no-gitaly-transactions-25-32
Job total RSpec suite run time	expected: 25 minutes 8.08 seconds, actual: 70 minutes 39.51 seconds
Spec file run time	expected: 3 minutes 50.31 seconds, actual: 12 minutes 21.63 seconds
Spec file weight	17.49% of total suite run time

• Reported from pipeline 4135718 created at 2025-05-09T01:17:34Z

Field	Value
Job URL	rspec-system-pg16-27-32
Job total RSpec suite run time	expected: 25 minutes 7.43 seconds, actual: 75 minutes 44.07 seconds
Spec file run time	expected: 4 minutes 10.96 seconds, actual: 12 minutes 18.32 seconds
Spec file weight	16.25% of total suite run time

• Reported from pipeline 4216146 created at 2025-05-30T20:29:01Z

Field	Value
Job URL	rspec-system-pg16-single-db-26-32
Job total RSpec suite run time	expected: 25 minutes 3.03 seconds, actual: 73 minutes 31.97 seconds
Spec file run time	expected: 3 minutes 54.78 seconds, actual: 11 minutes 4.92 seconds
Spec file weight	15.07% of total suite run time

• Reported from pipeline 4389050 created at 2025-07-18T01:52:41Z

Field	Value
Job URL	rspec-system-pg16-single-redis-26-32
Job total RSpec suite run time	expected: 25 minutes 44.02 seconds, actual: 73 minutes 22.68 seconds
Spec file run time	expected: 4 minutes 6.3 seconds, actual: 11 minutes 24.77 seconds
Spec file weight	15.55% of total suite run time

• Reported from pipeline 4586454 created at 2025-09-09T13:00:10Z

Field	Value
Job URL	rspec-system-pg16-27-32
Job total RSpec suite run time	expected: 27 minutes 4.54 seconds, actual: 73 minutes 53.86 seconds
Spec file run time	expected: 4 minutes 5.9 seconds, actual: 11 minutes 26.88 seconds
Spec file weight	15.49% of total suite run time

• Reported from pipeline 4587289 created at 2025-09-09T15:49:51Z

Field	Value
Job URL	rspec-system-pg16-27-32
Job total RSpec suite run time	expected: 27 minutes 4.54 seconds, actual: 71 minutes 47.56 seconds
Spec file run time	expected: 4 minutes 5.9 seconds, actual: 10 minutes 56.18 seconds
Spec file weight	15.23% of total suite run time