The test fails quite regularly - usually in one of many jobs:

Example


https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/12850/checks?check_run_id=1506517544

```
______________ TestSchedulerJob.test_scheduler_task_start_date ________________

self = <tests.jobs.test_scheduler_job.TestSchedulerJob testMethod=test_scheduler_task_start_date>

    def test_scheduler_task_start_date(self):
        """
        Test that the scheduler respects task start dates that are different from DAG start dates
        """
    
        dagbag = DagBag(dag_folder=os.path.join(settings.DAGS_FOLDER, "no_dags.py"), include_examples=False)
        dag_id = 'test_task_start_date_scheduling'
        dag = self.dagbag.get_dag(dag_id)
        dag.is_paused_upon_creation = False
        dagbag.bag_dag(dag=dag, root_dag=dag)
    
        # Deactivate other dags in this file so the scheduler doesn't waste time processing them
        other_dag = self.dagbag.get_dag('test_start_date_scheduling')
        other_dag.is_paused_upon_creation = True
        dagbag.bag_dag(dag=other_dag, root_dag=other_dag)
    
        dagbag.sync_to_db()
    
        scheduler = SchedulerJob(executor=self.null_exec, subdir=dag.fileloc, num_runs=2)
        scheduler.run()
    
        session = settings.Session()
        tiq = session.query(TaskInstance).filter(TaskInstance.dag_id == dag_id)
        ti1s = tiq.filter(TaskInstance.task_id == 'dummy1').all()
        ti2s = tiq.filter(TaskInstance.task_id == 'dummy2').all()
        self.assertEqual(len(ti1s), 0)
>       self.assertEqual(len(ti2s), 2)
E       AssertionError: 1 != 2

tests/jobs/test_scheduler_job.py:2415: AssertionError


```

tests/jobs/test_scheduler_job.py
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import datetime
import os
import shutil
import unittest
from datetime import timedelta
from tempfile import NamedTemporaryFile, mkdtemp
from time import sleep
from unittest import mock
from unittest.mock import MagicMock, patch
from zipfile import ZipFile
import psutil
import pytest