Hello here, We've discussed recently on the possibility of enabling bigger public runners for GitHub Actions. I recall that it was supposed to be raised at a meeting with GitHub. We would very much like to start using bigger runners - we started to experience much more frequent intermittent failures and all traces lead to OOM (it's difficult to track sometimes because sometimes OOM leads to no logs from the instance - but this is most likely culprit).
I plan to look for more optimisations (which I would like to do regardless, but this might be difficult as I think we pretty much squeezed everything out of those instances) . I wanted to see if there is a possibility we could have bigger instances? As mentioned before - this will not really lead to bigger costs for GitHub (at least in our case) - we have optimisations that allow us to utilise more CPUS and memory (very well tested in our self-hosted runners) and this will lead to bigger instances needed for less time and greater stability (i.e. less reruns which we now have to do often) so overall it might lead to decrease in cost that GitHub has to incur sponsoring the ASF. Looking forward to trying it out when we can :). The moment we will be able to do it, I am able to switch the gears for all our builds pretty much immediately - our builds self-adjust parallelism to the size of the machine they run on :) J.
