Hi, On 2022-08-18 20:17:09 -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: > On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 06:09:39PM -0700, Andres Freund wrote: > > > But look: https://cirrus-ci.com/task/4953593575899136 > > > > Why is the build phase so slow in that image? 12min? That's way slower than > > the windows builds normally. > > Because I'd just rebased it, and it's using ccache, which I mentioned is > several times slower for cache misses, and only ~50% faster for cache hits :( > 20220701191841.gh13...@telsasoft.com
That makes it basically unusable - builds being that slow even just occasionally is prohibitive for something like cfbot I think. I'm a bit surprised though - I'm fairly certain that that wasn't the case when I tried it locally (with ninja at least). > > > => I installed most of the goodies, but deferred running the installers > > > until > > > the image is run, and it starts just as quickly. It has to run the > > > installer > > > each time, rather than once when building the image. That's crummy, but > > > it's > > > still 1-2 minutes faster than now. Maybe for some of those, it's not > > > needed to > > > run an installer at all. (Like if the installer can be extracted into > > > c:\programfiles). > > > > I am strongly against that. For one, the amount of traffic that causes with > > the software providers is substantial. For another, the failure rates of > > downloading stuff every time are quite high. > > I think you misunderstood. The installers are *retrieved* when the image is > built, and zipfiles are extracted. But for .exes, the installation is > deferred > until the image is run. Ah, that's better. I still think it's better to not install things every time and reduce the install footprint though. Greetings, Andres Freund
