Intermittent failures in "test producer stream request" (partial)...Exceeded maximum wait time of 60000000us waiting for stat 'ep_items_rm_from_checkpoints' to be 100

Error signature

Failure of an engine_testapp test:

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Running [X/Y]: test producer stream request (partial)...Exceeded maximum wait time of 60000000us waiting for stat 'ep_items_rm_from_checkpoints' to be 100 (last value:XXX) - aborting.

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Details
11 instances of this failure (19.0% of sampled failures):

• Time: 2022-03-08 12:35:16, Jenkins job: http://cv.jenkins.couchbase.com/job/kv_engine.linux/job/neo/30/, patch: https://review.couchbase.org/c/kv_engine/+/171920
• Time: 2022-03-08 12:35:16, Jenkins job: http://cv.jenkins.couchbase.com/job/kv_engine.linux/job/neo/29/, patch: https://review.couchbase.org/c/kv_engine/+/171451
• Time: 2022-03-08 11:58:24, Jenkins job: http://cv.jenkins.couchbase.com/job/kv_engine.linux/job/neo/28/, patch: https://review.couchbase.org/c/kv_engine/+/171744
• Time: 2022-03-08 10:11:37, Jenkins job: http://cv.jenkins.couchbase.com/job/kv_engine.linux/job/neo/26/, patch: https://review.couchbase.org/c/kv_engine/+/171451
• Time: 2022-03-10 11:16:15, Jenkins job: http://cv.jenkins.couchbase.com/job/kv_engine.linux-CE/job/neo/53/, patch: https://review.couchbase.org/c/kv_engine/+/172037
• Time: 2022-03-08 12:35:16, Jenkins job: http://cv.jenkins.couchbase.com/job/kv_engine.linux-CE/job/neo/29/, patch: https://review.couchbase.org/c/kv_engine/+/171451
• Time: 2022-03-10 11:16:15, Jenkins job: http://cv.jenkins.couchbase.com/job/kv_engine.ASan-UBSan/job/neo/53/, patch: https://review.couchbase.org/c/kv_engine/+/172037
• Time: 2022-03-08 11:58:24, Jenkins job: http://cv.jenkins.couchbase.com/job/kv_engine.ASan-UBSan/job/neo/29/, patch: https://review.couchbase.org/c/kv_engine/+/171744
• Time: 2022-03-08 18:04:27, Jenkins job: http://cv.jenkins.couchbase.com/job/kv_engine.threadsanitizer/job/neo/31/, patch: https://review.couchbase.org/c/kv_engine/+/171932
• Time: 2022-03-08 12:35:16, Jenkins job: http://cv.jenkins.couchbase.com/job/kv_engine.threadsanitizer/job/neo/29/, patch: https://review.couchbase.org/c/kv_engine/+/171451
  <cut> - only showing details of first 10/11 instances.