Many MTR tests restart the server in the middle either using shutdown_server [$timeout] directly, or using include files such as include/restart_mysqld.inc, which in turn call shutdown_server.

shutdown_server command is handled by do_shutdown_server, which is supposed to keep checking whether the server is gone away, and proceed as soon as it's disappeared. Only on Windows it does not work – even though the server shuts down properly, mysqltest keeps waiting until the timeout is exceeded. As a result, tests which restart the server in the middle take much longer than they are supposed to.

One of examples is innodb.innodb-autoinc. It takes 5 times longer on Windows because it waits three times, each time for 60 seconds.