On Sun, 20 Nov 2022 at 21:18, Neal Gompa <ngomp...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> Lately, I've been using the COPR ARM builders a fair bit: I've been
> working on Fedora Asahi stuff with Davide Cavalca for the past several
> months, and I've noticed that builds in COPR are easily at least 2x
> slower than their equivalent builds in Koji, most of the time
> considerably worse.
>
> For a concrete example: I've been building kernel-asahi in
> ngompa/fedora-asahi and ngompa/fedora-asahi-dev COPRs for some time
> now, and each kernel build is basically 3 hours. Most recently, I
> built a kernel based on 6.1-rc5
> (
> https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/ngompa/fedora-asahi-dev/build/5041891/
> )
> that took 3 hours. The equivalent build in Koji
> (https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=94172035) took
> less than 1.25 hours.
>
> I tried earlier today to build QtWebEngine in COPR for testing a fix,
> and it couldn't complete in the 5 hour time limit it has by default. I
> eventually did a build locally (which took about an hour to build) and
> validated it before pushing it to Koji
> (https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=94372924), which
> took a little under 3.15 hours.
>
> I thought we had access to super-fast Graviton-based builders for
> COPR. Our builds should be *flying* compared to Koji or my local
> resources. So what's going on?
>
>
I have been noticing a sizeable slowdown in builds on Graviton in other
places unless the hardware is a dedicated hardware instance. My guess is
that ARM is no longer niche and a lot of other teams are using them which
means we are getting 'swapped in and out' in the cloud with everyone else.

-- 
Stephen J Smoogen.
Let us be kind to one another, for most of us are fighting a hard battle.
-- Ian MacClaren
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